India’s Lethal Race Problem

India’s Lethal Race Problem
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri

Prejudice against darker skin is deeply embedded in Indian society. When I was a child, my grandmother would scrub me with a homemade “fairness paste” because I was not as light-skinned as my cousins. Skin-whitening products have replaced Grandmother's paste, and their sales have risen to $460 million. Fair & Lovely, the market leader in fairness creams, has annual sales worth more than $310 million.

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