O Gore Gore: What It Means to be a Fair-Skinned Man in India

O Gore Gore: What It Means to be a Fair-Skinned Man in India

Living as a fair-skinned man in India is bit of a head-start, but can lead to some pretty awkward moments. As a child, I was repeatedly cast as the only girl in a play at a boy’s school, and in Hyderabad, a man who wanted to take a picture with me, asked me, “Which country?”