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Beyond Unilever's cosmetic renaming of Fair & Lovely, brand must redress years of profiting off India's dark skin stigma
Anuradha Sengupta •Let’s seize the opportunity to get Fair & Lovely to repair the damage it has caused, writes Anuradha SenGupta
It's skin, not a shade card
Anoushka Agrawal •Shade Card is Anoushka Agrawal and Tara Anand's attempt to tackle 'colourism' — differentiating among people based on their skin tone
Woman in rural Bihar rejects dark-complexioned groom, claims he isn't 'smart' enough
Ians •A woman in Bihar's Buxar district refused to marry a dark-complexioned groom, saying he was not 'smart' enough for her, a police official said on 10 May