Hi Readers,
I recently read about the campaign of unfair and lovely. Honestly magnificent idea , its high time especially Indians learn that beauty is skin deep. You cant be beautiful just because you are fair. I am Wheatish and since childhood i was told not to drink tea as i am dark, i used to apply fairness creams , lots of pack and as my sister was a fair the complexities grew more each time and the end result i am some one who started believing i am not beautiful. But as i grew old and wiser i realized, i am a bit dark but not ugly and being fair does not make you beautiful.
I remember an incident where some one told a mother in law ghar mein lakshmi aayi hai (meaning a daughter in law gets good luck of money when she comes to the house) , and the mother in law retaliated and said Goddess Kali as the daughter in law was on the darker side. I actually thought of telling her dont instigate the wrath/anger of Goddess kali by criticizing her
Being dark is not a sin but people are being punished for being dark. Even in the famous novel mills and boons the hero was characterized as tall, dark and handsome. Yet people want to be fair.
Well our society has always been biased and hope it takes some heed and start looking at person abilities and feature rather then just defining some one by color.
I recently read about the campaign of unfair and lovely. Honestly magnificent idea , its high time especially Indians learn that beauty is skin deep. You cant be beautiful just because you are fair. I am Wheatish and since childhood i was told not to drink tea as i am dark, i used to apply fairness creams , lots of pack and as my sister was a fair the complexities grew more each time and the end result i am some one who started believing i am not beautiful. But as i grew old and wiser i realized, i am a bit dark but not ugly and being fair does not make you beautiful.
I remember an incident where some one told a mother in law ghar mein lakshmi aayi hai (meaning a daughter in law gets good luck of money when she comes to the house) , and the mother in law retaliated and said Goddess Kali as the daughter in law was on the darker side. I actually thought of telling her dont instigate the wrath/anger of Goddess kali by criticizing her
Being dark is not a sin but people are being punished for being dark. Even in the famous novel mills and boons the hero was characterized as tall, dark and handsome. Yet people want to be fair.
Well our society has always been biased and hope it takes some heed and start looking at person abilities and feature rather then just defining some one by color.
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