Couldn’t resist posting this! ! It felt like snow both at one’s feet and up above in the skies as well! !
Here’s the answer to all the inquisitive children that commented on my previous post ‘Trapped‘.
The leaves, I mean!
Happy New Year folks… have a great 2012 ahead 🙂
I started this post as a lazy Wordless Wednesday but simply couldn’t NOT write a couple of lines about it!
Do take a look at the picture below ….
And we don’t spare even London!
I know of so many girls/boys who are praised for their ‘beauty’ ONLY because of their skin colour (I say that because they utterly lack other features!). Just the same, I know some people, who are truly beautiful, but are not considered so simply because they have dark skin!
Why is someone with a ‘milky-white’ or ‘wheatish’ complexion considered to be a better human being than someone who is dusky or dark (worse!!)?
Why is a fair-skinned person rated higher on the matrimonial scale than a dark-skinned person??!!!
Westerners go all our to get a ‘tan’ and we layer ourselves with skin-lightening creams!
On my last trip to Chennai, a nice elderly gentleman mentioned that he was trying to find a groom for his daughter. His exact words were ‘She is very fair and good-looking, like your relative xyz’. I was amazed at his simplicity, naivete and crudeness all rolled into one. I don’t blame him. That is simply, a part of our culture! We are ignorant enough to assume that someone who is fair is indeed more beautiful than someone who is dark!!
I wished him well. And also wished his daughter had more to her than just fair skin! Like perhaps some inconsequential things like confidence, education, capability, etc.
I met someone the other day, who said something at the opposite end of the spectrum, but that was, in essence the same! This acquaintance casually mentioned a distant cousin who was an extremely intelligent and wonderful person, but was unable to find a bride because he was ‘extremely dark’. Well, what can I say! Had this been the ‘2000 pounds’ scene from ZNMD, I would have just laughed! But this is real.
We just seem to be obsessed with skin colour! Something makes us believe that being fair is an achievement in itself!! There is some underlying factor that makes us proud of our light (read: ‘superior’) skin-colour? I would really like to know what it is.
Is this ‘fair skin’ purely an Indian obsession? Or is this rampant world-wide?
Please, do share what you think!!
Hello lovely folks.. I’m back with another Wordless Wednesday!
Do take a look at the below pictures and tell me, what you think this is? Mid-day Moon or Noon??!
Took this picture of the Moon in broad daylight, and within a couple of seconds the sun had engulfed it!!
The picture says it all!!
So this blog has been SO neglected that we don’t get even spam comments any more 😦 In case anybody’s still reading, then I’m sorry for having gone away for so long. But I’m back now! With the perfect excuse of a post. Wordless Wednesday (No offence, WW). Only this is quite a wordy Wednesday.
Anyway. Here’s a picture for you. I had two people in mind when I clicked this, 1 – Crazy Cracking Saks and 2, Aaroo. Don’t ask me why! Just like that.
And while those of you in India are suffering from an overdose of Ra.One.osis, and while those living outside India are eagerly waiting to show their ‘patriotism’ by buying first-day-first-show tickets to the same movie, let me quickly take the chance to wish our very own Rag.One a very happy birthday! Happy day Brat-of-Blogworld!!! May the Gods bless you with a Kareena Kapoor this year 😉
Adios people!!
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