DO NOT ignore the look of your organization’s logo-based social media icons, says Heather Mansfield, author of Social Media for Social Good and owner of DIOSA Communications. On Nonpro… Read More
Here’s an interview with Professor Radhika Parameswaran, Professor in the School of Journalism at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has been researching colorism—a term origin… Read More
Several girls, from infancy, carry the burden of marriage on their young shoulders. And if that weren’t enough, there’s the added worry of skin colour that decides your fate, bot… Read More
So here I am, teeheeing reading this news in NYTs Media Decoder this past weekend. The person who got behind this banning photoshopped images in magazines is Jo Swinson also the co-founder o… Read More
He writes up God Krishna as a playboy. Compares a sacred ritual―where the god is given a symbolic bath―to a foot scrub at a seven-star spa. To him, Shiva’s celebrity was af… Read More
The Reason To Love, the latest French TV commercial from the telecom giant Orange is here. And it promises to impress the film-buff, good deal-loving, and witty person in you.
In The Spot:… Read More
A socio-political cabaret I viewed in India in the fall of 2004 was titled A Deep Fried Jam. It was staged at the annual fundraiser organized by Mobile Crèches – an NGO tha… Read More
I recently met a design student and as we got talking about race and color, she shared a nuanced observation about children’s dolls at Ikea. She said the ethnically different dolls had… Read More
It’s here, a witty culture jam from India! Calling out our worldwide, multi-billion dollar fairness cream industry and its unfortunate consumers. Click here to play the spoof video adv… Read More
The Dirty Picture (2011) was a Bollywood film that showcased the life of 80s South Indian actor Vijayalakshmi Vadlapati, or Silk Smitha, as she later came to be known.
Smitha--a B-grade… Read More
If you want to know what goes on in a family where a child has “dark” skin color, go ahead and read the excerpts from a conversation with a former school teacher; a parent; an ed… Read More
“Turn the spotlight on this ubiquitous and complex reality,” the call to action beckons. To right, a quote from the conversation I had with a student of Rhodes Island School of D… Read More