NEEM Magazine

Cover Credits:  Make up:  Maria Hajek; Photography:  Benish A. Shah; Styling:  BASS Meet Puja Kakar, the Cover Model selected for NEEM Magazine’s Fall 2009 cover.  Puja is truly the definition of “model behavior,” living life in the service of others and looking gorgeous in the process! While many people your age our out partying, you’ve [...]

by, Benish A. Shah, Editor-in-Chief Marching forward has always been a fundamental right of a progressive movement. Whether it be marching in support, in protest, or in celebration. We have watched the epic marches of the past that provided us our current freedoms and some of us have marched in protest of those that threaten [...]

by, Roshani Chokashi Persian poetry spans an impressive two and a half millenia where it functioned as both a means of religious expression as well as the translation from romantic emotion to aesthetically profound literature.  The majority of surviving Persian literature follows an epoch of Islamic conquest circa 650 CE.  After the Abbasids came to [...]

by, Benish A. Shah, Editor-in-Chief Providing a voice to those that are silenced creates the platform for this richly provocative sotry woven through symbolism, masterful storytelling, and the infamous monsoons of India. In her book, Haunting Bombay, Shilpa Agarwal has taken her pen, or rather her computer, and written a beautiful understanding of India of the [...]

by Avni Sampath Fall trends in terms of hair are simple:  accessories my friend.  Lots of sparkly, shiny, lovely things that make you want to stop and say “oooo I wish I could rock that.”  Well the truth is, South Asian women CAN rock that and we at NEEM are here to show you which [...]