Aryan Malhotra, Author at Arré

Breaking Bad in College: When I “Interned” With a Weed Dealer

While my classmates were starting out as interns, I was learning how to run a business through a very different kind of on-the-job training. My college drug dealer gave me an education most people pay good money to business schools to learn.

Aryan Malhotra July 30, 2016

POV

“Tu Kala Hai!”: What’s Our Obsession with Fair Skin?

I occupy super-woke circles and work in a liberal office where I get periodic reminders to check my privilege. But years of higher education have not been able to entirely erase the prejudices and biases over fair and dark skin that I grew up with.

Aryan Malhotra June 28, 2016

POV

Crime and Punishment for the Stoner Soul

I’m always marked out by the cops as a prime suspect on their “drug-addict eradication mission,” because I weigh a grand total of little more than my backpack, and my hair defies Newtonian laws of gravity.

Aryan Malhotra May 25, 2016

Love and Sex

What is Love? The Right Person or the Right Time?

Is love even a person or is it just a time in life? The specificity of the timing of our great loves is the most definitive metric of whether it works long-term or not.

Aryan Malhotra May 5, 2016