Colour me right: It’s time to end colourism in India | Racism

My name means “wish”, but over the years I have been called many other names that mean “black”. This is because I’m a dark-skinned woman from India. My father is dark-skinned, while my mother has fair skin. I took after my father. My skin tone is neither “wheatish” nor “dusky”, as some beauty companies prefer to label darker complexions – it is simply dark brown. From a very young age, I felt I