Indians are obsessed with fairness. Our movies, fashion industry, advertisements, the nauseating matrimonial ads looking for "fair" brides, they all, directly or indirectly, tell us one thing. Fair women are beautiful. Fair women will be successful. Fair women will get good partners. The paler, the better. No wonder India has a booming multi-billion-dollar skin lightening industry. Every once in awhile, we may get an actor who will be called "dusky", but that's how far we can go. We are far from accepting different shades of dark.

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