Lakshmi Iyer, a Tamil American author, writes about her childhood experience with colourism, where she was constantly judged on her skin tone, and how it affected her self-perception. She shares her journey of self-discovery and how it influenced her writing, including her latest children's book "Why Is My Skin Brown?", which tackles the same issue.
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Original reporting conducted and published by scroll.in. Summarized by Rahul Verma.




