Topic: Fair & Lovely
Suhana Khan spoke up about colourism when Shah Rukh Khan wouldn’t. Don’t pull her down for it
While Shah Rukh Khan played a role in perpetuating colourism by endorsing a fairness cream, at least Suhana Khan has shown some spine by speaking up against it.
Before Fair & Lovely, there was Afghan Snow — all about the fairness creams market in India
The fairness cream industry has a long and prosperous history in India, and was estimated to touch Rs 5,000 crore by 2023, until the Black Lives Matter movement hit this year.
Must be inclusive and diverse — HUL drops ‘Fair’ from their ‘Fair & Lovely’ product line
In a statement Thursday, the company said the advertisements of 'Fair & Lovely' will also now feature women of different skin colours.
Indian men are swapping ‘tall, dark and handsome’ for ‘tall, fair and debonair’
Men in India have been buying more fairness products, because of which the bleaching cream market in India alone has an annual growth rate of 18%.
On Camera
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Pakistan can learn from Israel’s secret weapon and arrest its intellectual decline
How did Israel, a country of nine million — between one-half and one-third of Karachi’s population — manage to subdue 400m Arabs?
Keep calm and carry on: Unlike wheat, rice isn’t hot yet
The world is worried that India might restrict exports of rice after wheat, pushing prices higher and worsening global food security.
Defence
A look at the Territorial Army — The Indian military’s task force hit by the Manipur landslide
The Territorial Army, a part-time military organisation for Indians who may have other jobs, is essentially a volunteer force that can be quickly mobilised in the defence of a state.
Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest
What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.