True Ravish. Tall dark and handsome or dark and beautiful whether it is mythology or the 10th century history. It is only the era post 15th century where things changed and the whole Aryan Dravidian debate happened followed by the rule by a fairer skinned lot. Such an irony isn’t it?

He he he he :D .. Fair question Maniparna. The previous news of a similar kind was from Shenaz Treasurywala when she wrote that stupid open letter to the PM as a marketing gimmick for her movie. Apparently this is an older news and is coming to the forefront cos she is now in news. But ethically I am really happy that someone took a stand for it :)

He he. I guess it is the same obsession with cricket wrt to all those wonderful other sports. Or is just that the whole crowd is following another crowd and so on in an endless rat race only to realize that even the winner will only be a rat!

True mate, there have been greats to that list – Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King. Morgan Freeman, Obama and the list goes on bringing a smile on my face when I think about these people and the challenges they have faced and overcome them. I am not really sure about MJ as a role model here since he underwent a complete overhaul of his skin tone very soon in his life and probably had a bit of insecurity about it too. We might never know the complete truth, but nevertheless his achievements have been phenomenal to say the least..

I wonder too Lata. Indeed, the color of the skin is just a matter of the theory of evolution of Darwin or any other theory in that matter wherein we are a direct descendent of our environments over time. And it is completely insensitive to judge someone based on that. I was reading a very interesting theory about the these countries being ruled by the fairer skin. If we look at our 10th century history, it talks about tall dark and handsome and it is very rare that someone with a fair skin is considered handsome or beautiful. On the other hand the recent history, we have been ruled by the fairer skin and the association now has been between the fair skin and beauty and also superiority. In an alternate world, what if we were ruled by people from the darker skin tone? Would our perspectives have changed?

Indeed Yash. I think more than that, it is a very strong message to the society to move on from a traditional stupid mindset to something more sensible

Great post and hats off to Kangana Ranaut and she is a role model to all people who consider themselves less because of the color of a skin.

But, I wonder why every time such news about actors hit the media just before/after the release of their new films (wicked smile) :-P ….