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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter

Riddhi is a journalism sophomore from Dallas, Texas. She is currently a senior LARTS reporter and previously worked as a general LARTS reporter. In her free time she enjoys dancing, reading and exploring Austin.

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Alfredo J. Velasquez and Sergio Morales discuss Dia de Los Muertos traditions, stereotypes, and history at a Latinx Graduate Student Association and Black Graduate Student Association gathering on Oct. 25, 2024. Velasquez is the executive director of LGSA and Morales is the director of communications.

Graduate students host educational Día de los Muertos event, teach students about the holiday’s significance

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter October 28, 2024

While growing up, during Día de los Muertos, Alfredo Velasquez watched his dad collect vibrant colored flowers and listened to stories about how people in Oaxaca, Mexico, danced, celebrated and shared...

Bollywood dance team Texas Dhoom performs a classical Kathak dance for the Indian Cultural Association's Jashan event in the WCP Student Activity Center on Oct. 18, 2024.

Sixteen years later, Indian Cultural Association brings back event highlighting Indian culture

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter October 20, 2024

Last year, while sorting through their storage locker, Indian Cultural Association (ICA) members found fliers from 2008 advertising an event titled “Jashan,” which translates to “celebration” in...

Alumni discusses new Amazon Prime Video show “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh,” South Asian representation in film

Alumni discusses new Amazon Prime Video show “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh,” South Asian representation in film

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter October 18, 2024

Actor, comedian and radio-television-film alum Sahana Srinivasan plays Bhanu, the eldest child and daughter, in “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh,” a comedy show on Amazon Prime Video following an Indian...

Annual ACL act Barton Hills Choir platforms young Austin talent for 15 years

Annual ACL act Barton Hills Choir platforms young Austin talent for 15 years

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 30, 2024

Five years ago, then-6-year-old Brynn Toungate sang and danced along to Barton Hills Choir’s performance at Austin City Limits from the audience. This year, she will join them on stage for the third...

UT student band discusses ACL fest, future goals

UT student band discusses ACL fest, future goals

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 29, 2024

Two years after their debut, UT student-rock band West 22nd went from performing at frat parties to receiving an invitation to perform at Austin City Limits this year. The band’s achievements include...

Colectivo de baile cuenta historias a través de la producción de artes visuales y esencias

Colectivo de baile cuenta historias a través de la producción de artes visuales y esencias

Riddhi Bora and Jessica Martinez September 25, 2024

Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 22 de septiembre de 2024 por Riddhi Bora y fue traducido al español por Jessica Martinez. La compañía de danza sin fines de lucro...

Dance collective tells immigrant stories through visual, performing arts production

Dance collective tells immigrant stories through visual, performing arts production

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 23, 2024

Austin-based non-profit dance company Early Era Collective celebrated immigrants through a dance and film exhibit-style production at the George Washington Carver Museum. Audience members walked through...

Refugee Arts & Crafts Bazaar hosts vendors selling homemade goods, art

Refugee Arts & Crafts Bazaar hosts vendors selling homemade goods, art

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 17, 2024

Amidst the scent of samosas and bolani and the colorful sight of Afghan embroidered dresses and Ukrainian flower crowns, different corners of the world met at the TownLake YMCA.  A nonprofit providing...

UT alumni and leader of the UT Jazz Trumpet Studio Dr. Michael Sailors performs an excerpt from his new album outside of the Butler School of Music on Sept. 9, 2024.

UT professor and jazz musician releases first jazz record, reflects on record–making process

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 9, 2024

Mike Sailors, assistant professor of practice at the Butler School of Music, released his first record, Elias Haslanger meets Mike Sailors on Aug. 16. The record includes 10 songs featuring the piano,...

People gathered together for Front Festival’s annual film showcase on Aug. 30.

Film, music, arts festival The Front Festival platforms Texas-based women, LGBTQ+ creatives

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 3, 2024

Descending yellow cobblestone steps lead to an amphitheater filled with people engrossed in the films playing on a TV screen. The Front Festival — a four-day film, music, performing arts and visual...

mHart Media brings Asian American representation to Austin music scene

mHart Media brings Asian American representation to Austin music scene

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter September 3, 2024

For years, mHart Media manager Waverly said he struggled to connect with his Asian identity and failed to find a role model he could look up to. With the creation of mHart Media, Waverly hopes it can act...

Two customers look at Alienated Books' "staff picks" section on Aug. 29, 2024.

Alienated Majesty Books marks one year as ‘home of the leastsellers,’ reflects on building community

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter August 29, 2024

Amidst the backdrop of cozy furniture and plants, book titles such as “Jellyfish Have No Ears,” “Man or Mango?” and “Fabulous Machinery for the Curious” sit on the bookshelves of Alienated...

Texas student athletes applaud following a donation to an organization supporting students during the Co-Op renovation celebration on Aug. 23, 2024.

University Co-op celebrates renovated store, hopes renovation increases course material scholarship funding

Riddhi Bora, Senior Life&Arts Reporter August 27, 2024

Orange and white balloons, trays of Tiff’s Treats cookies and families carrying bags of UT merchandise filled the space of the newly renovated University Co-op on Friday. The University Co-op underwent...

Runway of Dreams resalta la moda adaptativa, incluye personas con discapacidades como modelos

Runway of Dreams resalta la moda adaptativa, incluye personas con discapacidades como modelos

Riddhi Bora and Valeria Mota April 17, 2024

  Nota del editor: este artículo se publicó por primera vez el 16 de abril del 2024 por Riddhi Bora y fue traducido al español por Valeria Mota. Música pop llena el auditorio de William...

Runway of Dreams highlights adaptive fashion, includes people with disabilities as models

Runway of Dreams highlights adaptive fashion, includes people with disabilities as models

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter April 16, 2024

Pop music filled the William C. Powers (WCP) auditorium, and the stage transformed into a runway as models with disabilities made their way to the front of the stage to pose for a cheering audience.  The...

Arab American musical artists to check out for Arab American Heritage Month

Arab American musical artists to check out for Arab American Heritage Month

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter April 8, 2024

April marks Arab American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate Arab culture and recognize the achievements and contributions made by Arab Americans. To commemorate this month, The Daily Texan compiled a...

Linguistic major Hongli Zhang starts to strum a balalaika in preparation of a slavic dance performance at the Jester dormitories auditorium on April 1, 2024.

EurasiaVision brings popular European show Eurovision to UT

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter April 3, 2024

The Jester auditorium stage illuminated a group of students in colorful, sparkly clothes with a warm light. As a Slavic song echoed through the room, the students began jumping, kicking in kick-lines and...

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Longhorn Urbanists educate, build community while bringing light to urban issues

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter March 29, 2024

At Robert L. Patton (RLP) room 0.104, a group of students participates in a game of Kahoot! The topic? General urban facts. Spring of 2024 marks Longhorn Urbanists’ first semester as an active student...

Members of the Dialogue Student Association prepare an assortment of salad for attendees who were fasting for Ramadan at the George I. Sánchez building on March 26, 2024. The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins with abstraining from food since dawn, breaking the fast at sunset.

Iftars hosted by Dialogue Students Association bring Muslims and non-Muslims together during Ramadan

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter March 29, 2024

The walls of room 1.510 in the George I. Sánchez Building displayed gold balloons and banners reading “Ramadan Mubarak.” The tables, decorated with green and gold table runners and candles, seated...

Social entrepreneurship org Texas Enactus proves ‘What starts here changes the world’

Social entrepreneurship org Texas Enactus proves ‘What starts here changes the world’

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter March 24, 2024

Content warning: This story contains mentions of sexual assault. “What starts here changes the world” may appear an ambitious statement to some, but for Texas Enactus, it accurately describes their...

Acción! Cine Colectivo fosters supportive, educational space for Hispanic filmmakers at UT

Acción! Cine Colectivo fosters supportive, educational space for Hispanic filmmakers at UT

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter February 29, 2024

Lights, camera, Acción! Amongst the constant cycle of creation at the Department of Radio-Television-Film (RTF), a new student organization has joined the mix.  Entering its first official semester,...

4 insightful articles about love to read this Valentine’s Day

4 insightful articles about love to read this Valentine’s Day

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter February 13, 2024

As heart-shaped chocolate boxes and pink and red balloons fill up stores, Valentine’s Day makes its annual appearance. Celebrated every Feb. 14, the holiday serves as a day to honor love, particularly...

Music-service group Healing with Harmonies impacts community with meaningful performances

Music-service group Healing with Harmonies impacts community with meaningful performances

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter January 23, 2024

As a rendition of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” reverberated through the nursing home, residents clapped and sang along to the classic disco tune. Students playing a myriad of band and orchestra instruments...

K-pop dance team, Kontrol Crew Texas, fosters diverse, welcoming community through dance

K-pop dance team, Kontrol Crew Texas, fosters diverse, welcoming community through dance

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter January 16, 2024

K-pop (Korean pop) reigns as a global phenomenon, with the top 100 K-pop artists of 2023 boasting a combined 90.4 billion audio and video streams worldwide, according to luminatadata.com. The emergence...

Putting the treat in trick or treat: 4 movie-inspired sweet treats to make this Halloween

Putting the treat in trick or treat: 4 movie-inspired sweet treats to make this Halloween

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter October 25, 2023

Trick or treat? The Daily Texan chooses treat. With Halloween just around the corner, The Daily Texan compiled a list of four sweet treat recipes to make based on Halloween movies. The trick? Trying not...

Evenground Dance Studio had their grand opening and workshop on September 30, 2023.

UT alumni create brand-new street style dance studio, seeks to create inclusive dance community

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter October 8, 2023

Music, sweat and cheers fill Evenground, Austin’s newest street-style dance studio. Founded by UT alumni, Evenground seeks to create a safe and welcoming space for dancers, with the hope of using dance...

Poetry on the Pond gives students a platform to express themselves

Poetry on the Pond gives students a platform to express themselves

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter October 1, 2023

As the sun sets by the turtle pond, poem recitations echo through the lawn. Hosted by Humanitas, a student well-being collective under the College of Liberal Arts, Poetry on the Pond takes place twice...

Mitski highlights nuanced feelings with “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We”

Mitski highlights nuanced feelings with “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We”

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter September 24, 2023

A little over a year and a half after the release of her album, “Laurel Hell” Mitski returns with her seventh album, “The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We.”  It includes 11 songs, each written...

Five meal prep lunches for Monday through Friday

Five meal prep lunches for Monday through Friday

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter September 20, 2023

College students must balance taking and studying for multiple classes, participating in several organizations, working a part-time job or internship and socializing. With all these commitments, finding...

Texas Girl Gains empowers women to feel strong, confident through weight lifting

Texas Girl Gains empowers women to feel strong, confident through weight lifting

Riddhi Bora, Life&Arts General Reporter September 14, 2023

Sitting on the lawn in front of the UT Tower, a group of girls string beads in an attempt to make bracelets ahead of a fall fundraiser for Texas Girl Gains, a new fitness club on campus. Entering its first...

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