Hello! South Asianist here too. I applied to 7 schools. I have been published and have ridiculously good grades. I think my application was GOOD. I even received tons of good feedback from individual profs at depts for my SOP... still got rejected everywhere. Hard not to take it personally, but this app season does seem to be esp hard for SAsianists as I have not heard of any of my batchmates getting through either.