Beauty standards
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The Dalai Lama is right-
Defending the Dalai Lama’s remark that his successor should be attractive, the author argues that treating ugliness as virtue, and being white as the best thing in the world, is…
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A darker shade of brown
The author examines attitudes to skin colour among South Asians, noting how Bollywood aesthetics define ‘Indian’ even for Western casting, that Indian-American culture pays less attention to shade, and predicting…
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The Rise of the Quarter-breeds in Bollywood
After seeing Kabir Singh, the author remarks on a trend of Bollywood starlets with a hidden European maternal grandparent, arguing that Indian beauty standards of sharp features and fair skin…
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Is Bollywood “whitening” Indian beauty standards?
Prompted by a young actress said to look Spanish or Italian, the author asks whether Bollywood is whitening Indian beauty standards, argues India is in an ‘importing stage’, and criticises…
