Beyond Skin Deep: Unlearning Colour Bias
By Manoj R. Kodachwad (Image generated through AI for representation only) It wasn’t a regular class. I was in 8th grade, and school had just begun. But instead of our teacher holding the book, it was our principal standing in front of us, taking a special class - a lesson that, even then, I didn’t realise would change the way I think and see the world. He asked a simple question: “Where does beauty lie?” What followed was almost funny. Answers came from every corner of the classroom, and many still make me smile today. But none of them were quite right. At the end, he said something that made the room fall silent: “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.” We were stunned. How can beauty lie in someone’s eyes? Everyone looked around, confused. And then he explained - each of us finds different things beautiful. What I may see as beautiful might not seem beautiful to someone else. That is why beauty truly lies in the eyes of the beholder. As I grew olde...