From many
days my mind was mingling around the issue but was searching for a right boost
and that’s when Kangana Ranaut brought this topic in limelight by refusing an
advertisement offer of whooping ₹2 crores for a fairness cream. It just acted
as a proper boost to write. The netizens have welcomed the actress’s move, but,
fairness still remains a big parameter in the great INDIAN society! Even though
we are progressing towards a global facelift, we often read in the matrimonial
ads seeking an educated urban FAIR bride, even though the prospective groom is
not so fair. What an irony! We often find the parents tensed about the marriage
of a girl who is not fair. I agree we are changing but this change is very slow
and meagre and often affected by the epidemic “log kya kahenge?” (What will people say?)especially
when a fair boy wants to marry a not so fair girl. How hypocrite of us??
Talking about the Indian subcontinent
basically it’s our genetic makeup that gives us a wheatish or a non-fair
complexion. Then how can, by applying the so called fairness
creams the skin color will change? Why are we so obsessed with fairness? Don’t
we love Chitrangada Singh or Lisa Hyden?
These actresses have won the hearts all over the world with their wheatish
skin. One of these ads over the television brags that fairness is necessary for
the confidence! No!! Who says fairness gives confidence? We all have seen
people with wheatish or dark complexion who have become successful in their lives.
You don’t need to be fair to look confident neither for a person to fall for
you! The person who is able to see your beautiful soul will befriend you irrespective
of your complexion and whoever will be able to see your inner self which the
rest world fails to, is the one for whom its worth to fall for!!The inner
fairness is the one which matters. Beauty has no parameter! Beauty is not about
how fair one looks. Every person is beautiful. It’s just the matter of how
beautifully one caries his or her personality in front of the world. It is the
aura and the strength of his characters which makes him magnetic. And automatically
it is his charisma which makes him a candy for an eye!!
It’s not
just the ads or us Indians who are plagued with this fair skin disorder, even
the west has had vast history of racism. It’s the question again, how can
we use the color of the skin, to judge a person? Actually it is the pigment
called melanin which is to be blamed for. And looking for the nonsense ads over
the television, we Indians are inspired with all these stuff. But why can’t we
take any inspiration from the fairness which is inside a person rather than a
skin color? Nobody can change his or her
color, it’s natural and will remain all your life. As I mentioned earlier, we
are bringing a pragmatic approach in our views. Today’s world has gone far
ahead of these taboos. We young citizens need to walk with this changing pace. So
let’s make an effort to bring this change in us and the society so that, next time when
an educated, so called modern boy denies a marriage proposal of a girl, just because of her complexion,let's make him realise his moderness is only confined to branded clothes and cars, his thoughts are still obsolete.
We humans have a pair of eyes, a pair of ears, one nose, one mouth and most
importantly one HEART!! It’s the fairness of heart and the mind which matters
the most!! A beautiful quote to end with “Beneath the armor of skin and bone
and mind, most of our colors are amazingly the same!!”
Happy Reading!! J
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