If you feel rage just thinking about fairness and how much importance its given in Indian society, you’re going to want to take some time out to read Renuka Shahane‘s anti-fairness cream rant that she posted on her Facebook earlier today. In it, she talks about how achievement has nothing to do with the colour of one’s skin, and a lot to do with so many other things – unlike what certain products would like to tell us.
Achievement is definitely NOT available in a “Fair & Lovely” packet worth a few rupees but a combo pack of grit, grime, determination, depression, frustration, discipline, hardship, pain, sacrifice, ambition, love, success, failure, dreams that we can’t ever dream of buying.
Read her full post here:
“Achievement is NOT to teach children that only fair is lovely but that being fair & honest is a true sign of a being lovely.” This!