Unbearable lightness of being
In many parts of India photography shops touch up photographs to make the skin colour appear lighter. A marketing campaign by skincare company Vaseline is now urging Facebook users in India to make themselves appear fairer online. The company has launched software to promote its new skin-whitening cream. Facebook users …
Heart is where mouth is
ON the surface, it would be hard to think of two places with less in common than the US city of Pittsburgh and Iran. There are barriers of culture, language, religion and the longsimmering political conflict that dates back to the hostage crisis of 1979. That’s what the people who …