Twinkle Khanna has proved time and again that she is a woman of substance in the right sense of the word. The actress-turned-author once again shed light on a pressing issue that the entire world is grappling under in her latest blog. In her latest article in a leading daily titled Fifty Shades of Bigotry the actress focuses on the inherent racism or say colorism, that is dividing the world in half. She does this flawlessly recalling two incidents – one during a family vacation, where a fellow shopper who was a woman with a ‘strong British accent’, expresses revulsion at rumours of blacks refusing treatment to poor whites in Cape Town hospitals and another of her 5-year-old daughter Nitara where she is comfortable in her own brown skin colour.
Twinkle’s husband Akshay Kumar shared the article on Twitter saying that one needs to be comfortable in one’s own skin.
https://twitter.com/akshaykumar/status/1015897322696388608
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Read excerpts from Twinkle’s article below:
....On our last day on the island, cramped in the back of the car, I am rubbing sunblock on the baby. She takes just a smidgen and then pointing at her significantly paler brother who is now fifty shades of painful red, she claims, ‘I don’t need as much sunblock as him. My brown skin is stronger.’ I recall a time when she was younger and came to me saying she didn’t want to take swimming lessons because she didn’t like getting dark in the sun. ‘I want to be the same colour as bhaiya.’ A chance remark by a foolish relative within her earshot, ‘She is so cute but not as fair as her brother, na!’ had not gone unnoticed. And this led to many questions within our home about colour with me telling her I want to be orange, the colour of her favourite carrots, and she laughing and wanting to be orange as well.
I asked why brown was stronger and she replied rather proudly. ‘White is a light colour so it gets dirty fast like my T-shirt, brown is darker, so it doesn’t,’ was her simple explanation.”
Trust Twinkle to address such a pressing issue so subtly in her article.
On the work front, she has finished writing her third book which will hit the stands soon.
