The Brownbag Magazine

What's Down with the Brown?
	Welcome to the Fall edition of the Brownbag magazine. Summer is over for another year, and as John Donne put it better than I ever could, “When autumn wind goes running, it does some magic things. It gives the shadows dancing shoes and gives the bright leaves wings”. On the agenda in this issue is immigration in America today. How hard is it for the children of immigrant parents to live up to expectations, and what is to be done about the illegals? Maybe we should think twice before building our barriers too high….more>>
Sudha's Snack: Born Again in the USA by Sudha Narasimhan My Parents wanted my life to be everything that theirs was not back in India: full of promise, opportunity, and happiness. Ironically, now they want me to be a dutiful Indian housewife. more>
Artist Lookout! New Documentary on H4 Visas Hearts Suspended is the untold story of thousands of immigrant women who come to the US every year on H4 or dependent spouse visas. more>
Chew on this!
	Fair…then Lovely…now Handsome by Asha Divakaran Bollywood icon, and personal heartthrob, Shah Rukh Khan recently received a media-flogging for appearing in a commercial for Fair and Handsome, the newly released fairness enhancing cream for Indian men. Endorsing a product that blatantly exploits a nation’s resigned acceptance of discrimination based on just how brown you are is criminal, and deserves the cyber stoning it received.ou are is criminal, and deserves the cyber stoning it received. more> The New Face of Foreign Aid: Remittances! Support Illegal Immigrants? by Mery Diaz Every year I make a trip to my mother’s homeland, Ecuador. I visit family, take road trips, enjoy the unbeatable biodiversity, and of course party till the break of dawn. Over the last few years however, I’ve notice that there is something new to enjoy: Ecuador’s booming cities. Not that Ecuador ever lacked the metropolis, but as in many developing countries, this had been limited to two major modern cities, which still had much progress to be desired. In my last visits, however, I’ve noticed a drastic change for the better. more>