Author: Seetha Nambiar Dodd
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Seetha Nambiar Dodd
- 20 October 2020
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The story of colourism has roots that go back many generations; it has trickled relentlessly through time and is still evident in many ways today. In many countries with a colonial history, light skin was perceived, for a long time, as belonging to the upper classes, constituting power and wealth.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Seetha Nambiar Dodd
- 24 September 2020
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My mother informs me, over the telephone, that she has just returned from a trial run of her inaugural ‘live-cam’ tour at the local Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur. My niece, who lives in England, is learning about Hinduism in her Religious Education class and would love to show her classmates a live, on-site presentation of her grandmother’s temple.
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