Kerala’s top government official just showed us how to fight back against unfair ideas about skin color. A few years ago, a famous skin cream called “Fair and Lovely” changed its name to “Glow ...

Chief Secretary of Kerala, Sarada Muraleedharan, sparks debate on colourism, beauty standards, and discrimination in Indian ...

Kerala Chief Secretary Sarada Muraleedharan's post is nothing but a much-needed reminder of how colourism still decides a ...

The series was purely a creative project that I developed to combat underrepresentation of dark skinned people of color in media.” Given their ubiquity, it’s unlikely that “fairness cream” ...

Kerala Chief Secretary Sarada Muraleedharan in a Facebook post, slammed a remark comparing her leadership to her husband's ...

This creates problematic beauty standards while also affecting people’s job prospects ... argue that pre-colonial Indian society held some prejudice against dark skin, while others argue it ...

Kochi: The chief secretary's bitter experience highlights the persistent prejudice based on skin tone in Kerala which boasts ...

Cheddar Man, believed to have lived in Britain 10,000 years ago. Challenging the long-held beliefs about the skin colour of Europeans, a recent study, published in the preprint bioRxiv database ...

However, the study suggests none had pale skin. This remained the norm for thousands of years, with DNA from the Iron Age, between 1,700 and 3,000 years ago, still showing 55 per cent of people had ...