“All the articles about me begin with ‘the dark and dusky actress’ because being dark is considered such an aberration”, says Indian actress Nandita Das
Das emphasizes more on the point that just because she holds darker skin complexion she was always chosen to play the lower class woman roles. She never got the chance to play the upper-class role as she was asked to lighten her skin colour to achieve that. Even today the notion of beauty is defined with whiteness and there lies the tragedy of Indian women.
Even today we find the advertisements in the leading channels that the darker girl was eschewed by her bae in favour of a fair complexioned girl. The girl uses some kind of fairness lotions and their reunion is portrayed gloriously. This is the sort of mentality that our society holds till date without knowing the health hazards caused due to the usage of these fairness creams. Let us check a few benefits of having dark skin today:
- Melanin content in our body makes us look younger and offer other health benefits too.
- Presence of melanin safeguards our skin from damage and prevents wrinkles, age spots, and rough surface.
- Do you know that melanin protects the entire nervous system as it acts as a free radical scavenger? It protects us against ‘Cryptococcus neoformans’.
- Melanin in our body reduces the risk of cancer as pigmentation to some extent is important for the health of the common people.
- Melanin content is exceptionally important because it prevents women from having any sorts of infectious diseases.
