It's My Empire

  February 11th, 2012 – a date that had been circled on my calendar for months. Okay, I don’t really have a calendar, but you get what I mean. It was the day that a random idea that popped into my head months ago would become a reality. It was the day that Bhangra Empire would perform in the United Kingdom for the first time. It was the day that Bhangra Empire would perform as an...

I know I am a little late with this, but I definitely wanted to do a recap of our trip to London. My original plan was to write this post on the plane ride back but then I got caught up with watching Homeland (amazing show, the new 24 for sure). By the time I got back I had so much to catch up on with school and work that I didn’t get a chance to get to it until the weekend. On top of that,...

In a few hours, I will be headed to San Francisco International Airport to catch my flight to London. The majority of the team will be leaving around the same time and arriving Thursday morning to Heathrow. Then there are the unlucky few who could not get the time off from work/school and leave Thursday. I just finished cleaning my apartment. No, I am not a neat freak, but for some reason, I like...

So on a last second game-time decision, I decided to go watch Dhol Di Awaz this past Saturday at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts. I usually have work on the weekends but fortunately (or not) I ended up being free. Dhol Di Awaz (or better known as DDA) and I go way back. I competed at DDA all the way back in 2003 when I danced for UC Irvine’s Rangla Punjab. If memory serves me corre...

I know, I know, I am extremely late with this post. The announcement was made last year (to be fair only 1 month ago) and I have been promising to blog about it, but haven’t gotten the chance to. For those that don’t know what I am talking about, we are going to London! I guess the title of the post takes care of that, but just to make sure, in case you missed it the last 10 times, we...

So this weekend our Winter 2012 bhangra classes begin in the Bay Area. Originally, I wanted to take the next couple of sessions off from classes because I felt it was starting to become a little too much. With work, school, the London trip (which I promise to blog about very soon), other competitions, and other personal stuff (which I guess I should blog about soon too), I felt the best thing fo...

For a long time now, I’ve always wanted to run a Facebook or Twitter contest for our all of our current/potential fans/followers. We have a decent amount of Bhangra Empire apparel to give away as prizes to begin with, but I’ve never gotten around to setting it up. But it is the first week (okay, technically maybe the second) of the new year so I thought, why not start now? Maybe we ca...

It is officially 2012 now (okay for the past four days it has been, but who’s counting) and with that comes the topic of new year’s resolutions. We all have them, and we all end up breaking most of them, but I do think it is important. A lot of people might say, why wait until the new years to make a change in your life for the better? I partly agree with this, but at the same time, i...

2011 is officially over and has been quite an eventful year for myself and Bhangra Empire. As a team, this was our 6th year together and I thought it would be kind of cool to do a recap of some of the events we took part in. My memory is not as good as it used to be, so hopefully I don’t forget anything. Bhangra Empire's 5 Year Anniversary Cake January 2011 marked a very special event f...

Recently, a new podcast called the Bhangra Pulse has been launched to discuss issues within the North American bhangra community. The Bhangra Pulse is hosted by 2 veterans to the bhangra circuit: Sulman Mirza and Dheerja Kaur. Sulman (not to be confused with Suleman Mirza of Britain’s Got Talent fame) has been in the bhangra circuit since the year 2000. The most exciting thing about this is...