While visiting relatives when I was younger, everyone would lament about the 'dark-skinned daughter of such a beautiful mother'.
Tag: social standards
A Fraud of My Heart – From One Sick Woman to Another
The Kerala high court recently held a woman guilty of fraud for not disclosing her cardiac ailments to her husband before marriage. It ordered her to pay him Rs 10,000 …
‘She is Dark’: Marriage Prospects, Labels and Society’s Undying Expectations
I am an ordinary soul with an ordinary yearning – a yearning to be seen as a person, not a label.