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Permalink Reply by Rachna Gupta on June 5, 2012 at 6:48pm

How sad this story is. I will say that Rajesh failed to protect his newly married wife. Now for rest of her life, she wil live as an outcaste, shunned and her life is destroyed. Rajesh Mandal was a weak man, unfit to be a husband. He failed to defend his wife. He was a coward and hopless. I hope this unfortunate widow find a new, understanding husband who will defend and protect her.

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Permalink Reply by Shalu Sharma on June 5, 2012 at 7:17pm

It is definitely very sad. Sad it may be but its not racism that you find in Great Britain. In Britain you can be murdered for being Black or stabbed for being Asian. There are numerous such racist cases in Europe. But this is a case of fairness or beauty and nothing to do with racism.  

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Permalink Reply by Rachna Gupta on June 5, 2012 at 9:12pm

I don't know about racism in Britain as I have never been there, so I can not comment on issue about which I have no experience or knowledge. Besides, what British do to Asians in Britain is not relevant to our debate here. We are talking about skin colour amongst ourselves within our own Indian community. If you are very dark skinned and poor then what chance you have to find a good looking light skinned husband ? Pity the father of the girl. If it is not one race against another race, it is internal racism and worst form of discrimination. Do you not agree with what I say ? And for God sake, do not bring Europeans, Arabs. Latino, Africans in our debate because they are irrelevant to our Bihar problem or Indian problem.

i also notice that you are very prompt in putting our own faults under the carpet pretending they do not exist. If you do that, how on earth are you going to rectify our own faults ?

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Permalink Reply by Gaurav Gupta on June 5, 2012 at 9:41pm

ok for the people who said its because the europeans messed with their heads, No. throughout history of india, before the europeans invaded and even now fairer skinned indian women were considered more attractive by the darker indians themselves. the fair people of india are descendants of the anceint aryans who settled in North india, or the persians/arab/turks who migrated to north india and mixed in...

yes fair skin is considered to be better, but dark skin is not considered unattractive, its just less attractive, not unaattractive in india.. light skinned indians are not pale or white as europeans. they are about as light as chinese people or persians but not white. they are olive toned or yellowish... Not pale white/pink.

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Permalink Reply by Gaurav Gupta on June 5, 2012 at 9:42pm

today, Indian parents want fairer skinned indian wives for their sons... however many indians consider black people of africa to be ugly for 2 reasons. 1, their too dark, even darker then most dark indians, and 2, because their features are too different as they have larger noses, larger lips, nappy hair etc...

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Permalink Reply by Gaurav Gupta on June 5, 2012 at 9:47pm

Also in bollywood films i never see any bollywood film stars with very dark skin. i always see all the stars with very light skin almost white as europeans.

So in indian culture why does it seem very light skin is to be praised way over dark skin when so many dark skin indian people are just as beautiful as the light skinned ones? in indian culture is very dark skin considered unattractive and or ugly? Can this have anything to do with the indian caste system by any chance?

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Permalink Reply by Shalu Sharma on June 5, 2012 at 10:06pm

I think we are confusing the two terms, skin colour and skin tone. Indians want lighter skin tone but not white. This is similar to Europeans wanting "skin tan" and not wanting to become black. 

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Permalink Reply by Rachna Gupta on June 6, 2012 at 2:27am

In our ancient Aryan tradition, VERN as in Sanskrit, was main form of division of the society. Very fair skinned were Brahmins, then light skinned were warrior class, dusky were artisan, traders and darlk skinned were Shudra. The indegenious population were Rakhchas (demons), Malech, Asur (Assarians) etc. They are potraid as ugly looking dark skinned people who were not allowed to assimilate with invading Aryans. It was a primitive but highly effective Aparthied, later practiced by South Africa.

Sometimes ago I saw a documentary on BBC24 by a doctor called Dr. Alice Roberts about human evolution. In that she said that during Ice age, people were forced to live for thousands of years in caves thus away from sunlight. This led to two things. The  pigment disappeared, and lack of sunlight led to Vitamin d deficiency. So they suffred from rickets. Thats how Europeans became white skinned. Originally we were all of same complexion when we left Africa. Because we all originated in Africa around Ethiopia - Kenya area.

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