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Open Letter To Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: This Ad You Figure In Is Insidiously Racist

Open Letter To Aishwarya Rai Bachchan: This Ad You Figure In Is Insidiously Racist

by The Daily Eye Team April 24 2015, 4:05 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 21 secs

We write to draw your attention to a full-page advertisement for Kalyan Jewellers in which you feature that appeared in The Hindu (Delhi edition) on April 17, 2015. In the advertisement you appear to be representing aristocracy from a bygone era – bejewelled, poised and relaxing while an obviously underage slave-child, very dark and emaciated, struggles to hold an oversize umbrella over your head.

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