Color discrimination

I wish Mr. Nelson Mandela who died on 5^th December 2013 to reborn to fight against color discrimination at domestic level this time.

I will give some real life incidents. You decide whether it is eliminated completely or we need Nelson Mandela to reborn in India to eradicate this at domestic level.

I would not have worried much about the color but some events made me think the color discrimination exist in india.

I was brought up in a joint family. All my cousins including my younger sister are all fair in color where as I was different. I have got color from my mother (It is BLACK !!!).

My paternal grandmother used to stay with us. She never used to like me, how much ever I tried to impress her (as you guys already know from my earlier blogs about my behavior)I used to wonder why she hates me so much. I think I was her last favorite grandchild among 21 grandchildren’s. Initially I used to do all the work for her, but irrespective of all this she never used to treat me like her other grandkids. Later I came to know about her obsession with fair skin.

I didn’t give much importance to my color after my grandmother’s death.

There is one more incident which many of dark colored guys would have faced which I am listing below is an another incident to prove color discrimination still exist

I am not fortunate enough to be loved by some girl before marriage because of my color and looks I guess J (after rejection of my love proposal by one girl, I stopped impressing girls). After I crossed age 29 my parents were worried about my marriage. I was not at all getting any proposals despite being registered my profile at all the possible matrimony bureau. I think my mother had given my non digitized true color photo J.

Later she requested me to have one digitized, skin color modified photo which I got it done from the nearest studio. She was happy to replace my bio data at all the bureau with her new fairer looking son’s pic J.

Phew here came one proposal within next 2 days. For next 1.5 years my profile didn’t cross first level of scrutiny. The top two reasons for rejections being Less salary (on which I have a control )and the second reason being dark complexion and bad looks (on which I didn’t have control !).

Now I am married. My wife doesn’t care about my looks or my skin color or economic status, otherwise she wouldn’t have married me because she is  beautiful, has more savings than me and has a FAIRER SKIN !!!!.