Episodes
Divorcing While Brown - The Divorce Dilemma
Remember the movie Crazy Rich Asians? Well, South Asian weddings are just as crazy irrespective of the riches. In the South Asian culture a woman's whole life revolves around her wedding. As a young child she'll watch Bollywood movies about love,...
There Is Power In Your Vote!
Are South Asian women left out of political conversations or is it willful ignorance? When was the last time you had a discussion about a policy, politician or political party with your husband, daughter, brother, sister? Where did you learn political...
The India Pakistan Partition & The Need for a New Narrative
In August 1947 when India finally won its independence from the British Raj after a struggle of almost 300 years. It left in it's wake a nation divided into two states: Hindu majority India & Muslim majority Pakistan. Immediately, there began one...
Pakistan is Experiencing Humanitarian Disaster & We're Going to Help
Dr. Amna Buttar, Dr. Geet Chainani and Director of Humanitarian Affairs, Sabyn Zaidi, will be going to Pakistan at the end of September to perform emergency disaster relief work. The most emergent needs are tents, food kits, clean...
Episode 13 - Meet an Aurat - Dr. Sadaf
In this episode the Auraten are in conversation with Dr. Sadaf aka The Savvy Woman's Sex Coach, who is also a board-certified OBGYN, life coach, and sexual counselor in New York, with over 22 years of experience in helping women and adolescent girls...
Epsiode 12 - Domestic Abuse and Toxic Masculinity
Mandeep Kaur, Sania Khan, Noor Mukaddam, Garima Kothari - are women who were victims of intimate partner violence. The hidden cancer of the South Asian community. About 60% of South Asian women report having experienced some for of domestic abuse in...
Episode 11 - Mahaan Auraten
In today's episode we will be talking to Tejal, a therapist specializing in couples therapy and maternal mental health who is also mom to two young boys about some of the challenges second generation South Asian millennial parents face. As I always...
Episode 10 - Queer Auraten
Being queer in a desi family is a tough battle. It can be a tragic, traumatic and isolating experience. Fearing social ostracization parents often respond to their child coming out with choice epletives and rage coupled with shame and guilt for...
Episode 9 - Sexy Auraten
In this episode the Auraten will be exploring SEX! It’s one of the most important ways we can get to know ourselves, our sexual selves and desires to own and explore. It’s that hush-hush topic that we could never talk about for ourselves. Our...
Episode 8 - Body Image
From billboards, to tv shows, bollywood movies, celebrity races to size zero, fair & lovely cream to a healthy diet of jiski biwi moti and goray goray mukhre pay you can't seem to get away it. Body shaming is deeply ingrained in the South Asian...
Episode 7 - Uvalde and School Violence in America
There have been 948 #schoolshootings since Sandy Hook. - 119 school shootings since 2018. - 27 school shootings this year alone. 2 of which happened AFTER Uvalde. - 300,000 children have either been injured/died as a result of...
Self Care
Sammy, Amna and Geet talk about what they do to unwind, relax and reset from our hyperconnected world. "People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer." - Dan Pearce Loving...
Episode 5 - Suicide, PTSD
*Trigger Warning* On May 15, 2022 on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at around 1:30pm Geet took her dogs down for a walk on her amenity deck in a luxury highrise on the east coast. On her way back into her building, somewhere in the middle of...
Episode 4 - Mental Health Miniseries Part 1
With this episode we start the conversation on mental health in the South Asian community. A special guest, Jahanara Chugtai, a Fullbright Scholar and graduate of the Warner School of Education, who can be found on instagram @pakistanitherapist shares...
Mera Jism Meri Marzi; My body my choice
Auraten chimes in on the conversation around the Roe v. Wade discussion that's all over the news after Justice Alito's draft opinion leak. Should women have bodily autonomy? Disclaimer: the artwork used as the episode artwork does not...
Meri Pyari Mummy - Episode 2
In honor of the creation of life, the feminine energy, the nurturing of one being by another Geet, Amna and Sammy share their moms and the relationships they share with them. In a special appearance, Sabyn shares a story of her late mother, Almas Agha.
Hum apke hay kaun? Intro to Auraten
In this episode you will meet the hosts, Dr. Amna, Sammy and Geet and learn what brings them together, what auraten is and why they're doing this.