http://ubyssey.ca/authors/samriddhi-kejriwal/en-usThu, 12 Mar 2026 07:00:17 +0000https://www.ubyssey.ca/static/ubyssey/images/ubyssey-logo-square.7fdeb5ac7f29.pnghttps://ubyssey.cahttp://ubyssey.ca/culture/the-real-best-picture-is-the-one-you-watch-with-friends/ <img alt="This Oscars season, I have a piece of advice for you: Watch these movies with other people." src="https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/Best_Picture_Nominees_1.original.png"> <p>Samriddhi Kerjiwal / The Ubyssey</p> <p>I love movies. I enjoy nothing more than escaping into someone else’s story for a couple hours, leaving it feeling a little bit stronger, smarter, better somehow. With the Academy Awards coming up on March 15, I decided, for the first time ever, to watch all 10 of the Best Picture nominees and review them.</p>Claire Donnan and Samriddhi KejriwalThu, 12 Mar 2026 07:00:17 +0000http://ubyssey.ca/culture/the-real-best-picture-is-the-one-you-watch-with-friends/http://ubyssey.ca/culture/how-the-patriarchy-messed-up-my-crossword-score/ <img alt="Despite my conscious beliefs about gender equality, I continued to carry habituated judgments on my own gender." src="https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/The_Ubyssey_1.original.png"> <p>Samriddhi Kejriwal / The Ubyssey</p> <p>For me, feminism has always been a conscious commitment. But a small revelation, brought into the limelight by a clue in a crossword, illuminated an unconscious thought process that lurked beneath the surface.</p>Alexandra Smitton and Samriddhi KejriwalThu, 19 Feb 2026 08:00:12 +0000http://ubyssey.ca/culture/how-the-patriarchy-messed-up-my-crossword-score/http://ubyssey.ca/culture/twelve-days-secular-yuletide-flames-log-2025/ <img alt="Two eyes with the reflection of a burning wood fire in each." src="https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/IMG_9697_ArimBlt.original.jpg"> <p>Samriddhi Kejriwal / The Ubyssey</p> <p>Is there anything more quintessentially suburban/middle class/North American in December than your parents powering down your Wii and telling you to “log off that game already,” only to turn on those relaxing, soothing, mind-numbing flames for hours on end?</p>Samriddhi Kejriwal and Kyla FlynnWed, 24 Dec 2025 08:00:08 +0000http://ubyssey.ca/culture/twelve-days-secular-yuletide-flames-log-2025/http://ubyssey.ca/humour/when-the-world-needed-him-most-he-disappeared/ <img alt="A comic strip illustration of Pea Man as a superhero." src="https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/HUMR_ILS_SamriddhiKejriwalPeaman_2025-09-26.original.png"> <p>Samriddhi Kejriwal / The Ubyssey</p> <p>It has been nearly one year since we have exPEArienced the closest thing to world (or at least campus) PEAce that has ever transPEAred.</p>Samriddhi Kejriwal and Kyla FlynnTue, 02 Dec 2025 08:00:11 +0000http://ubyssey.ca/humour/when-the-world-needed-him-most-he-disappeared/http://ubyssey.ca/culture/beginning-again/ <img alt="An illustration to two children in aikido raiment sitting on their knees on a red circle." src="https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/Aikido_Childhood.original.png"> <p>Samriddhi Kejriwal / The Ubyssey</p> <p>In the moments before I was awarded my black belt in aikido, I realized that, despite more than a decade of experience in the martial art, I was about to become a beginner all over again.</p>Samriddhi Kejriwal and Natalie VakulinWed, 22 Oct 2025 07:00:08 +0000http://ubyssey.ca/culture/beginning-again/http://ubyssey.ca/features/the-paradoxical-world-of-ubc-influencers/ <img alt="Black lineart of a person filming themselves with a phone and ringlight, and a colourful tie dye background." src="https://storage.googleapis.com/ubyssey/media/renditions/260528_s_kejriwal_influencer.original.png"> <p>Samriddhi Kejriwal / The Ubyssey</p> <p>Second-year UBC student Allegra Kastner went viral once. For her, that was more than enough.</p>Caleb Peterson and Samriddhi KejriwalThu, 29 May 2025 21:07:00 +0000http://ubyssey.ca/features/the-paradoxical-world-of-ubc-influencers/