For a society often seen to reflect a deeply ingrained bias for “fair skin”, a Supreme Court ruling sentencing a man to two years in jail for driving his wife to suicide following taunts over her “dark” complexion will serve as both a warning and a mirror to its uglier traits.
The apex court was firm that ridiculing a wife by calling her “black” amounted to severe mental torture.

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