The world isn't all black and white, but I was made to realize that it was, at a very young age when I faced my first hurdle as a girl with a dusky complexion. This was the 4th time I had been rejected by a guy's family when they came to meet me and my family. "Ladki thodi gori hoti to achcha hota" was the only thing I would get to hear and the only thing that would play in my head on loop. This wasn't the first time either when my colour overpowered my talents and abilities. The bias was everywhere. Even my school didn't spare me as a child when they made me one of the 40 "thieves" in a play when I could have played the main protagonist with ease, or when I was pushed back in the college flashmob just because I didn't have enough "face value".
Is being dark or being fair the only criteria to know me? Is my skin colour the only way to know that I would make an ideal partner? Is my dusky complexion the only factor that could decide the successes or failures of my life? Should my skin tone be the only thing that should boost my confidence and make me proud of myself?
We all say that we don't discriminate on the basis of colour, but nobody wants a partner who is not "fair"; a fact that is repeatedly echoed by matrimony ads all around. The Indian double standards are just preposterous. We all vie to be fair and it's a competition in which the fairness cream companies back us up in every which way possible. It is not our fault that we are born this way. Being dark or dusky is genetics, not a crime.
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