glamour bollywood news Does a while skin catches uncomfortable attention in the mostly-brown Delhi? There are no clear answers. While the traffic-light beggars and tourist-trap touts do swarm over anybody appearing to be from the wealthy West, most of the times they are left alone. However, Vikrant Kapur, a young college student, confesses that “white skin has glamour. †Mr. Gordon Weasly*, an Australian from Melbourne, working in Delhi since five years, observes, “If Indians see a white guy they take it for granted he must have bucket-load of money stashed up at his apartment.†In January 2007, a controversy erupted in UK over an alleged racial slur against the dusky Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, a co-participant in the reality show Celebrity Big Brother. Indian government, appropriately disgusted, took “.outlookindia/pti_news.asp?id=444318\"up the matter with UK through the British High Commission.†But there could be hypocrisy working here. In India, foreigners have to pay for their entrance tickets to the historical monuments in US dollars rather than in the usual Indian rupees. How do the guards make out the “foreigners� It is simple - white skin for westerners, black skin for Africans and mongoloid features for Koreans, Japanese etc. So, who is racist? * name changed on request.
