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American Desis is a podcast geared to sharing what it's like to be a South Asian in America through fresh, funny, and insightful interviews. Comedian Akaash Singh and actor Arjun Gupta emplo...

Start off your new year with a quick reminder of all the amazing tips and tricks from our guests this season. And thank you for all the love...

In the last interview of our health & wellness season, we talk to someone who was crucial to Arjun's personal wellness journey - meditation...

In the seventh episode of our health & wellness season we get to one of our most requested topics: AYURVEDA. We speak with Monica Bhanote of...

Episode 6 of our health and wellness season starts off with one of Arjun’s PSAs on mental health but eventually we get to talk to Navin Darg...

In episode 5, we talked to transplant psychiatrist Akhil Shenoy about psychiatry in the desi population as it interacts with parenting, alco...

In episode 3 of our health and wellness season we talk to yoga instructor Aditi Shah about her personal journey with the practice and how th...

In the third episode of our health and wellness season we talk to Shom Chowdhury, owner of Indie Fresh and the most jacked desi dude we've e...

Episode 2 of our health and wellness season starts off with mindfulness but quickly goes much deeper into finding purpose within the chaos o...

The first episode of our health and wellness season is about something we all love but don’t often know what to do with: food!! In the day a...

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"We started this partnership because we realized we didn't have a National Voice." In what feels like a perfect follow up to the Yves episod...

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Akaash makes his long awaited return to my arms in this latest episode. He regales us with how annoying brown folk are in Italy and I sing h...

In part one of our love affair with Dr. Manchanda we dove into what was the concept behind going "upstream." So for part 2 the big question...

Our health care system is broken. Its a sad but true fact. We have become a system that is based on volume of care rather than value, so we...

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By the age of 22, most of us consider ourselves successful if we've graduated college, possibly with a job in hand. But then there are peopl...

In the third edition of our wildly popular community episode, we talk about you guys and all the things you care about...but only after we t...

This week we're excited to have on the show one of the more famous South Asian actors in America: Utkarsh Ambudkar. He is a musician, rapper...