Impractical Knowledge

A couple of months ago, I was out with a group of friends of mine. We had gathered together probably after a period of more than two years. We hung out for nearly 30 minutes and guess what nearly 25 minutes of the conversation was about? One of my friend showed me his newly created  Instagram page, asking every one of us to follow it, and shared his plans of making money from it. He was quite busy staring down at his phone all the time with sounds of 'hmm' in between. The next friend showed me the number of friends he had on Facebook to establish his popularity and started searching my name on Facebook in order to send me a friend request . Quite ironic right!! Me standing in flesh right in front of him and he wanted to add me as a friend on Facebook. Sharing a laugh while reading funny Instagram posts was a part of that conversation as well. It's been more than a year now since I decided to quit all social media platforms and believe me I've never regr

' Dark And Lovely ', ' Dark And Handsome ' ever heard of these beauty products. Probably not and neither have I, at least in India. Yup!! Racism , especially on the basis of color, does exist in India and the increasing number of fairness cream commercials on television is a proof to that. Recently, I was watching a fairness cream commercial featuring one of the biggest superstars in the Bollywood industry. In the commercial he suggests a man with a dark skin complexion to use that cream in order to be handsome like him. Then the man is shown using the fairness cream and his confidence level magically reaches sky high and a huge crowd of girls swarm around him. Fairness Scale Now, what does this commercial suggest? In order to be perceived as handsome and be accepted by the society and to be popular among girls, you need to be fair. A fairer skin will boost your confidence and make people admire and respect you.  A dark guy should have poor confidence an