In India you can make insensitive skin color comments.

[V.Balasubramani]

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Giriraj Singh apologises for remarks on Sonia Gandhi

Union Minister Giriraj Singh in the Lok Sabha on Monday. Special Arrangement
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[h=2]Lok Sabha was adjourned amid uproar from opposition demanding an apology from Narendra Modi over the Minister's comments. [/h]Union Minister Giriraj Singh apologised in Parliament on Monday for his remarks on Congress president Sonia Gandhi earlier this month.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned after Congress disrupted proceedings demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apology over Mr. Singh's comments.

The minister had made the comment during an informal interaction with journalists in Bihar recently.

Mr. Singh was reported to have remarked that “had Rajiv Gandhi married a Nigerian woman and had she not been of white skin, would the Congress party have accepted her as a leader?” He also took a dig at the Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s long disappearance. “Rahul Gandhi aise gayab ho gaye hain jaise Malaysian airline (Rahul Gandhi has disappeared like the missing Malaysian airline),” said the Minister, considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

An outraged Congress had said the Minister’s “intemperate and distasteful remarks border on insanity.”

Read more at: Lok Sabha adjourned amid uproar over Giriraj Singh's remarks on Sonia Gandhi - The Hindu

 

[prasad1]

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At last, even Mr. Giriraj Singh is sensible compared to...................

 

[Jaykay767]

Only nincompoops will crap that “a comment accusing congress of racism for favoring a white person for president” is itself a racist comment – astonishing level of sha……. – LOL!!

But what can one expect from some people who ran to the whites, embraced them & continuing to embrace them even when they are frothing racist abuses daily on them…

 

[sarang]

Giri would have done better to apologise on behalf of sonia for 'maut ha saudagar', ilangovan for 'gorilla', diggu for 'hitler' and thousand other congress soda log for their sweet spits. anyway the sonia faction is satisfied with cheap biscuits thrown irreverently.

 

[prasad1]

We’ve a psychological, nay pathological, craving for fairness. So black is forever looked down upon. This is nothing short of a kind of mental and social enslavement that has become integral to our consciousness and collective thinking. Matrimonial advertisements still shamelessly underline the colour of a bride’s complexion, and dark is frowned upon. Nowhere in India can you come across, even accidentally, a matrimonial advertisement that states that a ‘girl has a dark complexion’. It’ll be a sure enough recipe for outright rejection! Many young women who are dark, feel marginalised in every sphere of life.

But have we always been obsessed with fairness?

Ancient Indian literature, mostly in Sanskrit, teems with references to dark complexion as the ‘epitome of beauty’. Shyam varna (dark complexion) of beautiful women egged poets on to write poetry in praise of the ‘twilight beauty’. Jayadev’s Gita Govinda has a dark complexioned Radha who is a perfect foil to the darkish Krishna.
Almost all the female characters in Kalidasa’s masterpieces were dark complexioned. Draupadi was far from being fair. Bhavabhuti’s Uttara Rama Charita does not show Sita with a peach-and-cream complexion. The Kamba Ramayana does not present Sita as someone with rose-and-tulip cheeks. Courtesans of Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra were dark. There is a complete chapter in the book dwelling on black beauties. Vatsyayana wrote: Shyam varnam saundrya bhutim pratimanah asti (beauty resides in dark colour and texture).
The most interesting thing is that in Bhanubhatt’s Nepali Ramayan, Shoorpanakha (Ravana’s sister, whose nose was cut by Lakshman) is depicted as fair-complexioned, and Sita has dark complexion. This indicates that poets of that time associated dark complexion with goodness and nobility, and thought of fairness as something full of guile. Ancient India considered dark complexion as something vibrant and throbbing with life and exuberance. Shyam chaapalya priyadhaam (black is always agile and sprightly), stated the ancient Sanskrit poet Amrook in one of his 100 poems, in a tribute to feminine beauty. Out of Amrook’s 100 verses on female beauty, 76 praise black beauties. His coeval Brahthari wrote only about dark complexioned beauties; never did he write anything in praise of fairness. Before becoming a saint, Brahthari lived a bohemian life but he always liked it more when he was with a dark complexioned woman.

The fallacy of the fairness concept - The Hindu

 

[renuka]

The word Dark complexion is hard to define..its not just one shade of dark..for example Bipasha Basu is considered dark and was called Kaali Billi(Black Cat) by Kareena Kapoor when she joined the movie industry.

But anyone who has a good eye sight would surely know that Bips is much more beautiful than Kareena and Bips has been Ford Model of the World before..came first in an international modelling contest.

Now Bips is considered dark in Bollywood but outside of Bollywood and in other parts of India she might not be considered dark.

I once saw a matrimonial add where a guy stated his color as wheatish but he was actually dark.

So it all depends on which shade of dark we are talking about..50 shades anyone?