Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 09:09 am:

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Onlytruth:

http://www.sakshi.com/news/national/woman-killed-husband-for -not-being-handsome-466953

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Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 07:01 am:

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Platypus:

We like our heroines white-skinned; when our heroes are dark, they have to justify why the heroine was attracted to them despite their skin colour (hello, that's every Rajini movie); we have comedy sequences in films and comedy shows on TV where we make fun of dark people. Tannishtha Chatterjee walked out of Comedy Nights when the roast became only about her skin colour.

And obviously, the entertainment we consume is this way because that's who we are as a society.

We buy Fair & Lovely tubes along with our grocery every month for the entire family to use; we gift a pregnant woman saffron and tell her to eat it so the baby is born "white"; we console a dark-skinned person by telling them that their personality can compensate for their looks; we'd rather stop swimming than suffer with the tan; our matrimonial columns want only fair brides and grooms. All of this is true whichever part of the country we hail from.

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