It must be lovely to be fair!

You know, the fetish that we Indian folks have with fair skin - its time to look at it from a new angle.


First, the context. So, there is this Mexican family that come to help us clean the house, have remarked that when they watch Indian TV (of course at our house, and we have Zee, TV Asia, Sony etc.), they say they notice that the actors are light skinned. As compared to "mango" Indians, that they see (Sarita, I'm gonna catch up to your English Madam Sahiba ;-) ). I might add here that, Saloni is an exception that proves the rule, as the show starts out by victimising her, skin color being one of the factors.


Then there is that "Fair and Lovely" cream. And a plethora of such products being advertsied over the "desi" channels.


At any rate, the point here is not to deride or rationalize this trait of ours. If its so, so be it. As imitation is known as the sincerest form of flattery, its hard to "preach" that "its OK to be dark(er)" when the whole country does a wink-wink and practices otherwise. Have u read a matrimonial column lately? ;-) I rest my case.


Point? (Do I have to have one?) If u thought I gave a rat's a-- about this, guess again. Just stirring up our dormant blog ;-)