As I was approaching my steps to home, I could hear the loud soap operas’ hilarious background music on television. Laughing in my head, I rang the bell, my mother opened the door with a shining smile and said, “Come beta! you must be really tired, I will get you a cup of green tea" and went to the kitchen. "Oh! Maa, what would I have done without you", I said and laid down on couch. and there it was:

"Sirf chaar hafton me paaye gora nikhar" featuring a girl face in Ravana head style with different shades of skin tone and where the smile keeps on extending with the fairer tone. I was grinning seeing that pictorial portray of shades and how the smile is directly proportion to the lighter skin tone. It was so funny yet dangerous to see that a national commercial gets to decide which skin is no good skin and moreover, misusing their power to guide the Indian population that fair is beautiful, and brown is not.

 How naive Indians could be to believe and follow such products from ages.

Indians are brown skinned people. Period. What’s so unacceptable about it? I really don’t understand, what’s the big deal owning brown skin? I think it’s the preaches from ancestral generation which was blindly followed by the people till today; preaches to make brown skinned people uncomfortable with their skin just because they don’t like their skin color. And, that’s so wrong. Commenting on your own people’s color is just disgraceful, it’s like you are making your own community pollute, unsafe, uncomfortable to live in.

Moreover, why do people are even obsessed with fair skin. This is one thing I guess I would never understand in my life. Why do people run after such products to get a fairer skin? Every human being is god's beautiful creation, disrespecting them on basis of looks means disrespecting god himself.  

 Audrey Hepburn once said:

         "For beautiful eyes,

                  look for the good in others.

           For beautiful lips,

                 speak only words of kindness

          For poise

                 walk with the knowledge that you are never alone

           and I believe happy girls are the prettiest

                because elegance is the only thing that never fades away"

Then why do you need fair skin? As long as you are smiling whole heartedly, I bet no other makeup or skin tone can brighten up any face in that matter.

Listen girl/boy, if you ever have been felt insecure by the sick hater’s comment, don’t care about it because they don’t care about you.

Well I am not here to say what should be done on these haters comment, but I am here today to emphasize on this whole skin color discrimination first place.

Try to make your community comfortable and livable for all types of skin color, and that’s not too much to ask for.

Let’s celebrate beauty beyond color and learn to respect all skin color.

Do your bit and encourage people around you for not being biased based on skin color.

Be responsible and do your part, rest will make the world a better place to live and breathe.

You are the change. And, remember….

Brown is Beautiful!