Estee Lauder product review will include assessing use of terms such as 'brightening' & 'lightening'. The cosmetics company was earlier confronted by employees over racial matters.
Commemorating the Haitian Revolution of 1791, UNESCO has designated 23 August as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
In ‘Bland Fanatics’, Pankaj Mishra writes how books and films portray the pre-war years as an age of prosperity in Europe. But it was full of war, racism and genocide.
Asian American & White people have only one-tenth to one-fourth the chance of being admitted as African Americans with comparable academic credentials, according to US govt.
If the goal is to promote hope and to inspire change, it would be far better to build. The cause of justice would not be much helped by tearing down old statues.
Awareness campaigns have encouraged Americans to support their local Asian restaurants. But many owners say the decision to close was due to in-house safety concerns.
Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
@Subhasis Ghosh…in America, any ‘appearance’ of being black, ‘makes’ you black…going back to slavery and the ‘one drop rule’ … just dummying it down for you but it’s complicated … your statement is ignorant to the nth degree …. interesting when folks who appear to come from the world’s worst example of a caste system makes these comments.
There are obvious advantages in certain jobs and certain political and social circles to be a Black in US. Otherwise why will Kamala Harris, raised by her Indian mother, eschew her Indian background and opt for the Black one of her father?
@Subhasis Ghosh…in America, any ‘appearance’ of being black, ‘makes’ you black…going back to slavery and the ‘one drop rule’ … just dummying it down for you but it’s complicated … your statement is ignorant to the nth degree …. interesting when folks who appear to come from the world’s worst example of a caste system makes these comments.
There are obvious advantages in certain jobs and certain political and social circles to be a Black in US. Otherwise why will Kamala Harris, raised by her Indian mother, eschew her Indian background and opt for the Black one of her father?