It's My Empire

As I always do after a competition, I’ll provide a quick summary of the Bhangra Fever weekend and how everything went for the team. A lot of you might be thinking why we chose to go to Bhangra Fever. For the past several years, we have always gone to big name competitions, whether that be Boston Bhangra, Bruin Bhangra, or Jashan. Bhangra Fever was a smaller competition held in a smaller tow...

This is a topic that I have steered clear of for most of my bhangra career. If you look back at this blog, you will not find a post that delves too much into judging in the bhangra scene. That’s not to say I don’t have an opinion on it. Being in the scene for over a decade, competing at many competitions, and judging many competitions myself, I’ve seen a lot of the good and the ...

A team picture of the Lethal Bhangra Crew which is an all-male team that features one girl dancer. Some of you might have done a double take with the title of this post thinking that it may be a typo. Others might have thought it was a joke. But in all seriousness, it isn’t a joke. It’s a new trend that is occurring in the bhangra circuit. Trend might be a strong word because only a f...

We are less than a week away from our first performance of 2013. It’s been a while since the last time we competed (Bruin Bhangra 2012), so the team is extremely anxious to get on stage and perform. In case you missed it, we are heading to Binghamton, New York to compete at Bhangra Fever, which takes place on February 16th. It’s the first time we will be competing at Bhangra Fever and...

Last week my Facebook feed blew up with a clip of an American Idol audition featuring a sikh punjabi contestant (Gurpreet Singh Sarin – The Turbanator). Lots of people posted about how proud they were to have a punjabi contestant ‘representing’ on a nationally televised show and wished him luck with his journey to Hollywood. It was similar to the type of support we got during o...

It has been a while since my last post (Bhangra Empire – 2012 Year in Review) and a lot has been happening on the Bhangra Empire front. We’ve been extremely busy preparing for our next competition (Bhangra Fever in New York on February 16th). Along with that, we also have a few opportunities in the works which we are finalizing and, if all goes well, I’ll be sharing about those shor...

With 2012 coming to an end, it’s time to go over some of the most notable events of the past year. Okay, let’s filter that down a little to Bhangra Empire’s most notable events. 2012 was unpredictable, had its ups and downs, and went down in the history books as arguably one of Bhangra Empire’s most memorable years. So lets rewind 12 months and start with Bhangra Empire...

Another week, another post, and another guest author. I could get used to someone writing my blog for me. But then again, I guess that wouldn’t really make it my blog. Oh well. Previously you heard from Abi Sundaram, then you heard from Ashish Chatterjee, and now you get to hear from another one of our newest members, Varun Gulati. In Varun’s own words, “You’ve already heard f...

Two posts in one week? I haven’t done that in a while. Don’t worry, it won’t last. The last post introduced you to one of Bhangra Empire’s newest members, Abi Sundaram (Bhangra Empire Newbies – Abi Sundaram). This post introduces everybody to another new member, Ashish Chatterjee. Just like Abi, Ashish shared some of his experiences trying out for Bhangra Empire and ...

For the first time in the history of my blog (it’s only been a year but I like to sound dramatic) I have a guest writer. As I mentioned in an earlier post (The Beginning of the 2013 Bhangra Season) we recently added 3 new members to the Empire family. Puneet mentioned that it might be interesting to have the ‘newbies’ (what we call new members of  Bhangra Empire) write a post a...