Desi Outsiders

This week, we spoke to Anjali Menon, the award-winning writer/director of popular Malayalam movies like Manjadikuru, Ustad Hotel and Bangalore Days.

36 - that's the number of jokes Ankita has stolen from Meenal (and still counting). HOW ‘BOU DAH? It's also the number of times Ankita has regretted having a KFC dinner, much like on the night of this recording. But do you want to know what else has happened over 36 times on the podcast? You guessed it. The Texas accent of Baaaaaarb Kellner. It’s a braindump. And yes, it gets worse.

Meet Sukhminder Kaur from Leicester, a beautiful young woman who suffered as an emotional eater from a young age. A lack of self esteem was both the cause and result of a pattern she was falling into, and the loneliness she experienced as an outsider in a setting very different to her traditional Indian home was not helping in any way. Tune in to our conversation with Sukh where she tells us all about her journey from a cycle of unhealthy eating to that of a finalist in the Ms Plus Size North India 2017 pageant - India’s very first plus-size beauty pageant.

25 years ago, a malnutritioned baby girl was found abandoned in Ambala with a purple tongue, no hips and ribs sticking out of her body. It took her adoptive parents two whole years to revive her, only to find out that she had a hole in her heart. If it hadn’t been for them, Tia Bhatia would not be with us today, having this conversation. So join us in this episode with Tia, an actress based in Toronto, who was lucky enough to be brought into a loving home and given the kind of life every child deserves.

This week, we bring you an exclusive interview with Amandeep Singh of Inkquisitive Illustrations.

This week, Ankita exposes the truly lowest points in her life - her relationships PRE SHANE. And Meenal tells us about the half date she had before her Mummy came in and ruined everything. We also share our four gems of wisdom regarding how to deal with a break up. Let us know what you think!

Finally, we bring you the much awaited Season premiere with the one and only "Mom Boss Of 3" from Youtube. Tina started her channel a year ago in order to document her daily life as a mother of three children. We discuss her life before marriage and kids, life as a second generation Desi in Canada, and how she juggles a hectic schedule whilst building her YouTube empire!

In season 2, we discussed many issues affecting us all around the globe and here we are at the Season Finale, discussing the most crucial of them all - who really is the ‘sexier’ one at the Desi Outsiders HQ (not including Shane).

This episode brings you all the unanswered questions that may have been swimming in your brain the past few months, including why we’re not called the ‘Desi Insiders’ :D

Meenal left and Shane grabbed on to the opportunity to replace her. The result: a very poor reflection on Shane and Ankita's marriage.

The first time we came across Simar’s ‘The Legal Rapist’, we were totally attracted to his pink shirt and Khaki pants combo. Oh, and his performance was pretty okay too ;)