It's My Empire

Bhangra as an art form is spreading like wildfire throughout North America. With competitions popping up everywhere, more and more people are getting involved in the North American bhangra circuit. And in no way would I ever discourage somebody from trying bhangra, but it does lead to the question of: how young is too young to start competing? On Bhangra Empire, we have a rule that each member mu...

Nachda Punjab (San Jose State’s Bhangra Competition) happened this past Saturday. As I had mentioned last week, I had the opportunity to be a judge for the music section of the competition. Being a judge is always a very interesting experience. Normally, the only team I focus on 100% at a competition is Bhangra Empire. If I get a chance to watch other teams, I try to watch as a fan. My appr...

Nachda Punjab 2011 For those of you that live in the Bay Area (or nearby), the San Jose State SSA is throwing Nachda Punjab this weekend (tomorrow). Nachda Punjab is one of the Bay Area’s oldest bhangra competitions. In the past it has been held on campus at SJSU, however, this year, they are moving the competition to the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose. It is an extremely nice venue wit...

Elite 8 Bhangra - March 3rd 2012 - Washington DC With Boston Bhangra happening this past weekend, the next ‘big’ bhangra competition is the Elite 8 Bhangra Invitational. It happens in Washington DC and is on March 3rd this year. More information on the event can be found on the official Elite 8 website, here. Elite 8 is a competition that is in its 3rd year now. It is a little differe...

Part 2 of my Boston Bhangra Recap will focus on competition day. If you didn’t get a chance to read part 1 you can check it out here. In an earlier post (Preparation – Competition Day) I covered what we normally do on competition day. Below I will go into that, as well as share some thoughts on Boston Bhangra as a whole. I will also go into how I thought we did as well as some things ...

Bhangra Empire at the Boston Bhangra Mixer As many of you bhangra fans might know, Boston Bhangra was this past weekend. For a fourth straight year, Bhangra Empire made the trip out to Boston. Our first Boston Bhangra was in 2008 where we placed first. In 2009, we placed second. Last year, in 2010, we placed first again. Needless to say, we have had a pretty good history at Boston. This comes wit...

So Boston Bhangra is in a few days and I thought I would provide an update and give some thoughts before the competition. Our last practice was on Tuesday. Half of the team left last night and is already in Boston. The second half (including myself) leaves tonight and reaches early tomorrow. It is our first competition and performance with the new additions to the team. So the question is, are we...

So earlier this week, Google+ launched pages for businesses and brands. This is the equivalent of Facebook Pages. It was only a matter of time before Google jumped into this as much of Facebook’s recent growth can be attributed to how they integrated businesses into the picture. It quickly went from a social networking site to a platform that businesses could use to communicate with their c...

Bhangra Empire @ Rooh Punjab Di 2007 It was July of the year 2007. Bhangra Empire had just finished competing at Rooh Punjab Di, held in Davis, California. The performance didn’t go exactly as planned, however, we did end up getting 3rd place. What was significant about this performance? Well, it was the last time I danced with Bhangra Empire at a competition. The events of that day unfolde...

Can anybody find what is wrong here? (Elite 8 Bhangra 2010 Official Shirt) And finally, another blog post. I know, I know, it’s been a while since my last post. I apologize to all 4 people in the world that look forward to reading my blogs (even that might be an overestimate.) But I do have a valid excuse. Work’s been crazy (haven’t had a full weekend in a month) and it’s ...