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Rohan is about to get married and couldn\u2019t be happier. However, when he looks back at his turbulent past, things weren\u2019t always this way. He recalls his early childhood that was filled with different\u00a0bleaching creams\u00a0being caked on his face to make him fairer and the \u201coh, you must be adopted\u201d jokes\u00a0from within his\u00a0family, because he was darker than his cousins.\u00a0He didn\u2019t realize how much of this he internalized until school, when he asked 7 girls to a dance and got rejections from each of them\u00a0with a snide remark about the color of his skin, \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized that my outside was such a deterrent that my inside needed to be way better.\u201d Once he transferred to a different school, he felt a shift. He was now student body president and had joined a drama class. People liked him for who he was, his skin color wasn\u2019t the only thing defining him and his drama teacher became a mentor to him when she saw him struggle. He finally felt at peace. However, this too came to an end when his family moved to the US and he started attending a small liberal arts college in Minnesota, \u201cUndergrad was like starting from scratch again because I felt like the last two years I had spent in Bangalore were the best, I was loved.\u201d There, he faced a different kind of oppression. To him, it felt like racism, colorism, and ignorance had been blended. He received a lot of underhanded comments and was subtly fetishized by his friends and classmates.\u00a0He struggled a lot with being gaslit about his experiences, but gives credit to his Black friends and exposure to Black culture in helping him feel included and validating his feelings.\u00a0He now lives in Chicago with his lovely wife, where he\u2019s never the odd one out and diverse people are in abundance,\u00a0and his skin colour is a point of pride for him now and not something to compensate for.\u00a0<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

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