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As a child growing up in South India I was often told by my South Indian nanny to stay out of the Sun. “Or else you’ll be black like me and you will have to work as a maid”, she would tell me. The origins of fairness traced back to the advent o...

The Indian Identity Crisis Part I

As a child growing up in South India I was often told by my South Indian nanny to stay out of the Sun. “Or else you’ll be black like me and you will have to work as a maid”, she would tell me. The origins of fairness traced back to the advent o...