Meera Desai

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Raas and Dandiya All Night
They bring holi to her,

She throws the colors.

There is a different type of feeling to cracking open a glass bottle of Limca at a street stand in Surat, and Meera Desai would be more than happy to show you the best way to enjoy each carbonated sip amongst the three-wheeled rickshaws blowing horns in arena traffic and stray cattle bucking hooves across crumbled sandy mud. Always full of sunburst energy, Meera Desai is someone who may not be the best English speaker, but has a rose-like excitement and reaction to everything. In addition to spirit, Meera Desai is a big nature lover. Give her a forest, and she’d spend days in there. It might explain why she’s been trying hopelessly to be president of the Environmental Club and Community Service. Above that, she’s a hopeless romantic who overwatched too many Bollywood movies and could be just as theatrical as the actors within. She is jumpy, but can be easily lovable.

A little off beat,

A little crazy,

But extremely sweet.

Growing up in a bungalow with a very prominent ceiling swing on her porch, Meera Desai is the only daughter of two crop farmers. She’s just about every type of failure to her parents, aunts and uncles. Thoroughly criticized for spending most of her time cooing at peacocks and mooing in the stables with their farmed bulls, rather than being within the top ten percent at her school, her parents became increasingly pressured to send her to a school in the West World. A school in the West World would cause her to focus, or so they would hope. While her strict parents loved Meera, they were often worried she would be a disservice to their name or worse, her arranged husband in the future. She needed to become a good image for their family, bring herself a degree as a doctor or an engineer. In a sense, one could say they didn’t really appease Meera's interests at all. They needed something to brag to their neighbors and relatives about. So, Meera got a passport, an airport ticket, and she was sent off to Silver Oak.

TBA