by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University My definition of being productive over the summer entails catching up on movies and books that I did not have the opportunity to enjoy throughout the school year. While I started out watching some quality academy award winning movies, I quickly succumbed...

by Reshma Jae - Georgia State University If you’ve never heard of Dev Patel, you must live under a rock. Seriously. He first broke through to American cinema with his award winning role in Slumdog Millionaire but actually was in the British show Skins prior to his Slumdog fame. While perusing through...

Need an inspirational story that tugs at your heart strings and makes you proud of being a brown woman? Read about Kakuben Lalabhai Parmar and her extrodinary life from one of the lowest castes in India. Through her ability to economically support herself and her family, she’s gained more freedom...

by Devika Bakshi – University of Oregon It was the fourth of July, and I was prepared for the annual wave of patriotism that washes over even the most self-critical corners of the United States. I was unperturbed, my affection for America ripe, the smell of fireworks in the air. But I woke up...

by Simerjeet Sahota So, while most people do normal things during their weekends, I read books on clothes.  Yep.  That’s what I did.  Completely sad part – I proceeded to re-read the books AFTER I finished them.  Like, directly after.  Like, I didn’t even put them down.  I went from last...

by Aditi Mehta – Houston, TX BG had the privilege of getting to know Sarah Ali, an entrepreneur with a very creative soul. She has taken her love for make up, mixed it with her background in psychology, and transformed it into a beautiful studio, called (what else?) The Transformation Studio. Located...

A new skin-whitening app? On facebook? Promoted by Shahid Kapoor? Check out the debate on the app and then read some of bg’s articles on the pressures of fairer skin here: http://browngirlmagazine.com/2010/02/blending-in/ http://browngirlmagazine.com/2010/04/check-it-vogue-india-tackling-color-prejudice/ http://browngirlmagazine.com/2009/02/the-fair-skin-battle/ AKPC_IDS...

Indians are travelling thousands of miles to see the beauty of Switzerland – the mountains, lakes, architectures – and to act out dance numbers from the Bollywood classic, Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge! Switzerland never had trouble attracting tourists, but now there is another reason to go...

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Need some group therapy? At BG, we’re launching a new advice column where you the reader can submit your questions/issues/whatever! And, we’ll try to give you some feedback you can use! Check out our first submission: Dear Wise Brown Girl, I’ve been dating my (non-Indian) boyfriend...