Fair and Lovely was never just a product. It was humiliation packed and sold.
“You have dark skin and a fat nose,” said the old woman to the 12-year-old girl growing up in Punjab. A decade later, that girl is still fighting the stereotype of being a woman of colour, and the hard-sold lack of privilege of not being White. Does she give in?
Dilpreet Taggar stitches together incidents from her own life and shares this intimate story.