In her final semester of Emerson's Honors Program, Arasha completed a 60 page thesis on the impact of Bollywood movies on the lives of immigrants. Her focus on Indian diaporic viewership in Hindi cinema allowed her to uncover the negotiation of cultural allegiance across physical borders. Drawing from her own experiences as an immigrant, Arasha put forth six months towards this project. In April of 2021, the University of Minnesota published her work in their Honors Student Journal.

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For her mid-term paper, Arasha wrote about the silencing of women on TV news. She recounts personal narratives from female news anchors, exploring the inevitable “mansplaining” from fellow journalists and the public remarks of downright sexism.

For her thesis, Arasha wrote about the consequences of providing aid abroad. Last December, Emerson Flows donated to a school in Kenya, but were only asked to send pads and pantiliners, excluding tampons and (the very sustainable) menstrual cup. Arasha shares the struggle of attempting to appropriately share her knowledge on menstrual hygiene without expressing ethnocentrism.

In her senior year of high school, Arasha wrote a persuasive speech about the stigma surrounding menstruation. This original oratory explored the causes of the taboo around periods economically and socially, the effects on individuals, as well as some tangible solutions on a global scale. Read the nationally-recognized speech below!