It is the women who are often criticized for putting on make-up or relying too much on cosmetic products. The usual charges that one comes to hear of, is that they don't understand the need of the hour or undermine the value of time by wasting time on looking fair.
This will be Breaking-news for those critics. Guess who would care more for looking fair when they are on a serious mission (though the mission was mass murder)? It's the bunch of terrorists who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
It could not be more surprising to discover that the terrorists along with carrying the other essential commodities to survive on the trawler Kuber on high sea, were also carrying tubes of fairness cream. The security agencies have found along with tooth brushes, tooth paste, dairy whiteners, clothes, soap detergent, namaz caps, instructions to operate arms in urdu and satchets of fairness cream shipped from Dubai.
Cold cream would have made more sense than fairness cream given the dry season that has already set-in, in the region.Though the guys were going to launch a killing spree in a city at the end of their voyage, they could not care less to look fair. And the cream certainly have worked wonders, as the eyewitness who saw these men getting off a dingy in Macchimar colony described them as "gore-chikne ladke" ( fair and handsome men).
5 comments:
This was both startling and true. Thank you for the slap on the face. We tend to fall asleep, and take serious matters with a grain of salt.
What a startling revelation ! I did not have any idea about that... ....Thanks for sharing this....
i see..dint know about this..it should have been 'un'fair and band-some..those ugly terrorists..
Marvelous observation Amrita…
It seems that the terrorists are not immune to our affliction with appearance especially with need to appear “Gora” much like the notion highlighted in “Gore-Gore o Bake chore…”
I would also like to share something interesting I came upon in my Travels on this phenomenon… recently Kodak papers came to India with a photo printing technology that was state of the art revealing the truest of the true colors in every photograph… needless to say they had to pull it back as the Indian consumers demanded that all their photos be a little overexposed making them appear Fairer that they actually were…
Just How Vain R V?....
Amrita, thanks for your comment on my Extra-Depth blog today. The reason the Cormorant is all alone is simply that he's not married but "single" :)
Happy New Year!
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