The national attitude towards dark skin.
In early February, I woke up to news of a mob attack on a Tanzanian student in Bengaluru. It wasn’t the first case of violence against Africans in India, but this particular incident made me curious about Africans in India, and through them, the truth about racism in our country.
This story is from the October 2016 edition of Fountain Ink.
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