There I sat, looking at Sanjana, a beautiful fair skinned, dark eyed and dark haired girl from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in North India, as she told me the almost like mystical myth of how she was born light.
The price of being dark-skinned
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The schema of things 2 – social identity: caste and class in India
From the moment we are born to the moment we draw our last breathe, society puts us into categories and slaps labels on us. We are given names, nationalities and norms to which we should adhere to.