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Last week, Karnataka’s housing and waqf minister Zameer Ahmed Khan put his foot firmly in his mouth with racist remarks about Union minister H D Kumaraswamy’s dark complexion. While the insensitive taunt has riled many, it must be admitted that India does practise a not-so-subtle form of racism—the fair Aryan versus the dark Dravidian. Skin colour is often linked to socio-economic status: the ‘gora’ species to beauty, wealth, upper caste, intelligence, even cleanliness, while ‘kaalia’ comes with a baggage of being lower caste, inferior, poor and undereducated. The complex North-South ethnic divide comes into sharper focus in a society fixated with fair skin.

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