Fair & Lovely - Desiring Whiteness

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Thanks for acknowledging that the previous article (modern indian culture's obsession with lightness) is an opinion, but I'm honestly getting sick of this particular article. I've seen it posted numerous times by white people (as they attempt to portray it as a fact) to make other Indians feel backward and bad about their own people, as well as their own skin color. This article wasn't even written by an Indian man. How would whites feel if a Hindu sage tried to dictate how white people are?


So, this author thinks that skin color is an indicator of caste, huh? Geez, I guess that means Vajpayee and Nobel Peace Prize Winner V.C Raman must be untouchables. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo-->



Aishwarya Rai doesn't have green eyes. Has this man never heard of colored contacts?

Her eyes are brown, regardless of whether she wants to admit it or not (or whether her fans want to admit it or not).

The proof lies here:


http://forums.ratedesi.com/attachment.ph...entid=1578



http://forums.ratedesi.com/attachme...tachmentid=1580


On top of that, I don't think the "hiring of brown actresses" is something recent. I'm not an expert on Bollywood movies, but some of the older actresses appear to be brown-skinned in films as well. For example, Rekha, Jaya Badhuri, Amitabh Bachaan, Nandita Das and Smita Patil. Vajyanti Mala was widely recognized as fair, but I have seen a few pictures of her when she looked brown.