
Sometime in the 1980s, Kailash and Lata Makhija, the children of refugees of India's partition, immigrated to Carbon County, Pennsylvania, leaving behind their home in the refugee city of Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra. Through sheer hard work, they built a life in the US with their three children, striving to give them the childhood and life they had missed out on. Today, four decades later, their son Neil Makhija, has made it his life's mission to lend a resounding voice to others like his father, to give the growing community of Indians and South Asians in the US the power and recognition it deserves.
A Philadelphia-based public interest attorney and community activist, Neil is the Executive Director of Indian American Impact - a leading South Asian civic organisation in the US, a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and also currently serves as President of the South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia. Once an aspiring neuroscientist at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Neil was simply following his lifelong dream, when he saw an election in 2008 that proved that when enough voices banded together, dramatic change was possible.
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ISLAND BLISS, OFF THE RADAR
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Revitalise & Heal
EMBARK ON AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY WHERE NATURE MEETS AN UNDERSTATED LUXURY HAVEN CRAFTED SPECIALLY FOR HEALING THE BODY AND THE MIND. THE SINDHIAN SHARES THE EXPERIENCE

CAMPUS MATRIARCH
TINA THAKRAR SPEAKS TO DR NEHA JAGTIANI, THE EMINENT PRINCIPAL OF NATIONAL COLLEGE IN MUMBAI, ABOUT HER VISION FOR THE INSTITUTE, HER FONDNESS FOR HER STUDENTS AND HER OUTLOOK ON THE INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM

Dance Mode On
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A Taste of Home
TINA THAKRAR SPEAKS TO SINDHI HOME CHEF SHALINI KHANNA OF LOVE PER PLATE ABOUT FINDING FULFILMENT IN SERVING SIMPLE, NUTRITIOUS FOOD.

A CHAMPION FOR INCLUSION
MELBOURNE-BASED DISABILITY ADVOCATE KARAN NAGRANI MAY NOT HAVE HIS SIGHT, BUT HE DOES HAVE A VISION - TO CHANGE HOW THE WORLD PERCEIVES THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED. HE SPEAKS TO TINA THAKRAR ABOUT HIS UNIQUE APPROACH TO BRINGING ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE

BUSINESS BUILDER - CORPORATE STRATEGY ADVISOR - INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER
A VETERAN IN BUSINESS CONSULTING WITH A FAMILY LEGACY IN FASHION, SIDDHARTH LULLA IS NO STRANGER TO INDIA'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY. HE SPEAKS TO THE SINDHIAN ABOUT DRIVING SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES FOR LEADING APPAREL BRANDS, AND THE TRANSFORMATIVE WORK IT TAKES TO 'GO GREEN'

BOWLFUL OF GOOD NESS
KAVITA CHHUTANI OF THE BOWL THERAPY TELLS TINA THAKRAR ABOUT ACING THE ART OF PACKING GOOD HEALTH IN HER HEARTY OATMEAL BOWLS

MANAGING POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME
THE PASSIONATE DR ANKESH SAHETYA ELABORATES ON THE HORMONAL DISORDER THAT CAUSES ENLARGED OVARIES WITH SMALL CYSTS ON THE OUTER EDGES