Columbia University Bhangra

missing the fam a lil extra today🫶

let’s see what boards up to 👀👀

WELCOME BACK to 🌸✨

Kicking off the season with so much love and gratitude through our Love Letters to Columbia Bhangra💌🫶🏽

Our first letter this summer is from Ekam Natt (CC ‘29)!!

Dear Ekam,

Thank you for brining the kindest, most joyful energy to every practice, every team bonding moment, and every qawah house meetup☕️☕️ Your smile genuinely lights up every room you walk into, and the warmth you bring to the team is truly special. We are so grateful to call you family, and we cannot wait to watch you shine in the years ahead☀️💕

With love always,
Columbia Bhangra💌

CUB fam’s travel update 🌎✈️

AND NOW, we have ANUSHKA KUMAR!! 🌟💫 Anushka graduated with a BA in Economics and Statistics, and will be working in finance in the city. 💸📈

Anushka’s strong sense of logic and leadership has helped our team stay on top of it. She is cutthroat when she wants to be 🔪😤, but always lends an ear to anyone that needs it. 🤍 She’s compassionate, but that’s not all. Anushka brought the heat from Texas (hook ‘em 🤘) onto the stage with her fierce energy and incredible stage presence ✨👀 Whenever she needs a break from helping our team, we could just assume she would be at Liz’s for the 10th time of the week, or re-dying her hair red to match her insane wardrobe 💅 . And if she really wants to get away from us all, she would be planning her next travel trips which we all end up stalking in addition to her Beli account. 🌍✈️

Anushka, thank you for being our team’s endlessly inspiring force. We are so lucky to have had you, and we can’t wait to see everything you take on next! 💕

NEXT UP, we have AISHWARYA RAO!! ✨✨Aishwarya graduated with a BA in Computational Biolog and will be pursuing a BME Master’s at Columbia and then dental school! 🦷🪥

If there was anyone that could make your day so much brighter, it was none other than Aishwarya 💫. With her positive energy and constant words of motivation, she has always known how to elevate our spirits. She has also been a stellar example of someone that could do it all: compete on a bhangra team AND sing on an a capella group. Dance in a chunni AND a pagh. And she kills it in everything that she does. This multifaceted girl has always managed time to come in with a smile on her face. And her smile is exceptional . Her dancing is just as extraordinary as her compassion for others. But we’ve also uncovered her sassy side too, with comebacks that never fail.

Aishwarya, thank you for being our team’s sunshine🌞. You are incredibly talented, and we can’t wait to see all the things you achieve in the future. We also can’t wait to see you around campus next year🫶🫶

OUR FIRST SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: AARYA PANWALKAR!!!! Aarya graduated with a BA in Biochemistry, and will be working as a medical assistant before going off to med school! 🩺🥼

Aarya has been our team’s walking encyclopedia of Bhangra knowledge. 🤓 Whether it’s knowing a crazy number of sets or adding to her extensive Punjabi playlist, she’s been our go-to for any questions or facts we want to learn. If she wasn’t watching a Furteelay set for the 158th time, she was probably at a superrr late night Butler session with a Celsius in her hand. Or, she would be explaining to someone how being from North Dakota is kinda normal. 😬 Aarya has helped bring our team to the next level with her constant innovative ideas and dance skills we all look up to (holy chaal). ✨ She carries the grace from her ballet experience onto the Bhangra stage, and it’s even there in her cadence (except we all know not to get on her bad side). 🥰

Aarya, thank you for all that you have done for our team these past years! We can’t wait to see you kill it in everything you do!! 🤩❤️

Last, but definitely not least, we would like to welcome our official BHEIGHTS XIX EXHIBITION TEAMS‼️: CUB Seniors, Columbia Raas, Columbia Taal, and Columbia Dhoom!

We are so excited to see them take the stage with us this Saturday, March 28th, in Roone Auditorium! TICKET LINK IN BIO 🎟️

INTRODUCING… our AP DJ SACHI PATEL!

Columbia’s south asian community’s fav is playing all of your Bollywood, Latin, Punjabi, and American Pop/Rap favorites on SATURDAY, MARCH 28TH at HK HALL for our BHEIGHTS AFTERPARTY!! 🥳

If you haven’t bought your tickets, BUY THEM NOW. Tier two selling out VERY SOON. Link to tickets in bio!! 🎟️

🥁INTRODUCING🥁… your Bhangra in the Heights XIX LIAISONS!! We are so excited to announce our lovely liaisons for this years showcase!