'India Is Racist, and Happy About It' by Diepiriye Kuku (Outlook India)
"The writer is a black American PhD student at the Delhi School of Economics."
"Racism is never a personal experience. Racism in India is systematic and independent of the presence of foreigners of any hue. This climate permits and promotes this lawlessness and disdain for dark skin. Most Indian pop icons have light-damn-near-white skin. Several stars even promote skin-bleaching creams that promise to improve one’s popularity and career success. Matrimonial ads boast of fair, v. fair and v. very fair skin alongside foreign visas and advanced university degrees. Moreover, each time I visit one of Delhi’s clubhouses, I notice that I am the darkest person not wearing a work uniform. It’s unfair and ugly."
Racism based on skin like white or black exists in india.
Example:
you cannot see begger with white skin in india as black skin people
Posted by: anti racist | February 14, 2010 at 07:03 AM
If u r a beggar roaming around the streets of India the sun will automatically burn ur skin into coal...
this Diepiriye Kuku is a real jerk, jst tell him to visit Southern India, where most people are dark..but rich and educated people also exists there inspite of being dark..
People like Kuku dnt evn understand the country properly and keep writing unacceptable things , the question is how can he judge the entire nation based on a single state i.e. delhi...every state is different with difference in terms of culture, climate, literacy,economy etc. so much of diversity is present in this country. Generalizing is last thing you can do. Writing about sensitive issues have become a trend among this kind of writers to gain peoples attention..
Posted by: Hindusthan Jindabad! | July 04, 2010 at 04:59 AM
I have noticed as others have that most of the Ads used in India the people have to look/or appear as white. It is rare to see anyone with dark brown skin in a major Ad.
Posted by: Rae | November 19, 2010 at 10:54 PM
I agree inspite of being indian.i havent faced cos i myself dont like india hence i agree with india beinf racist.thought i can putforth a person in andheri east mumbai
Posted by: madhura | March 25, 2011 at 11:04 AM
priyanka chopra is with very dull skin color (watch her without make up) still she has become miss india and world voted by indian public and is also rich.what do people who discriminate on color have to say now?
Posted by: madhura | August 06, 2011 at 08:58 AM
also is lara dutta,tanushree dutta, sayali bhagat but yukta mukhi is very fair is color inspite of being voted as miss india she dint do well in media as priyanka chopra,lara dutta, tanushree dutta did and r doing.
Posted by: madhura | August 06, 2011 at 09:00 AM
I'm a Black American and I'm debating on visiting Mumbai for a week either in November or December. I want to checkout the clubs. Should I even bother? I can deal with enough racism here in Chicago, so I'm not about to spend thousands of dollars to be mistreated on the other side of the world.
Posted by: Kt | August 14, 2011 at 10:41 AM