Not the Skin, but the Eye

When did we start believing that fair skin means beauty… and dark skin means less?

In this episode of Echoes of Shiva, I trace the journey of how skin color became linked to privilege — from nature’s science of melanin, to Europe’s industrial rise, to colonial propaganda and modern advertising.

But the real question is: has beauty ever been about skin?

Or is it about the eye — the way we choose to look at one another?

Pause. Reflect. And maybe rethink what beauty really means.

— Shiva