Who is the Fairest of Them All?

By maclink on December 27, 2009 11:09 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Check out Madhulika Sikka's piece on the value of fair skin in India.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120322659

Among Indians, skin color is an issue. I mean Indians like me -- the kind from the subcontinent of South Asia. I tend to refer to my people as "brown people" because, by and large, that's the color of our skin. But, as we all know, there are many shades of one color.

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