Comparative to what? She is light compared to 60% of the Indian population but then she is dark compared to the 40%.

Like I said in a different thread, she is a great actress in the right role...Kaminey, Saat Khoon Maaf and Barfi come to mind. But I am not a big fan of her acting in something like Don. She seems to switch between being the pretty, sexy eye candy and a good actress. Something tells me that she needs a good director…

Actually, she is probably around the average for Indian skin color. I have noticed that a lot of Americans have a stereotype for what they think Indians look like and anyone who does not fit that "look" is immediately assumed to be an exception and "she/he does not look Indian". I am an Indian and I have been confused…

I agree with you that flight attendants are probably lighter in color than an average Indian but it is not so unusual to see someone with her skin tone.

She is a pretty huge star in India. I agree that Indians have a lot of problems when it comes to skin color but you might be overstating things a bit. You should look up Bipasha Basu, Shilpa Shetty, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee or Deepika Padukone. All fairly big stars with similar coloring as Priyanka Chopra. It is a…

I think Priyanka is a great actress with the right role and the right director and I am really happy with her success. I highly recommend her movie "Saat Khoon Maaf". I really wish she would stop doing those music videos.

Indian woman here. Buying jewelry from Tanishq is not cultural appropriation. It is just jewelry, even if you buy something in very traditional designs. There are some pieces of jewelry that have some symbolism such as mangal sutra or toe-rings which only married women wear in certain parts of India. But even those…

There was an earlier ad along similar lines in India by the magazine Femina.

I am a 34DD and I have been wearing these three-part-cup bras for years without knowing what they were called. They will seriously change your posture and comfort levels. I buy mine from Macys. I have some Bali, Lilyette and Chantelle brands. Some brands have minimizer bras in the D and higher cup sizes and those are…

Did you not read this article you are commenting on? It is all about how Hilary Mantel did not attack Kate's looks.

After watching the movie in the theater I absolutely do not want to watch it on Broadway. I generally like musicals and I love "Les Miserables" the book. I like all the actors in the movie (maybe meh on Russell Crowe) but completely hated the movie. I have no idea why. The music did not work for me...maybe if I was…

Thank you very much for your highly enlightened opinion. This is exactly the kind of nuance-less commentary that helps in solving social problems.

I am completely fine with all the articles that Jezebel has posted about this rape. They are all true and Jezebel readers are entitled to this "interesting piece of information". However, most readers also seem to be unaware of all the protests going on in India. Protests for women's rights that have spontaneously…

I agree with most of the things you said but would like to correct you on one thing. The protests have been completely spontaneous. The advocates for rape survivors might have joined in later, but in the beginning it was just regular men and women and they really did not care about drawing international attention. I…

I am more disappointed than outraged by Jezebel's coverage of this incident. The outrage is more towards some of the comments. I am a fairly frequent visitor to this site. I know that they rip Western and American culture for many things. However, the only times when they talk about India (or a number of other…

I don't see how that has any relevance here. I know plenty of people who have been married to someone they never met before that week and those marriages are no better or worse than many American marriages. Given that in this so-called "deal" you mention, both the man and the woman are in the same situation, I don't…

As a long time reader of Jezebel, I am well aware of their limitations when it comes to writing about other countries. I don't expect them to understand the complex cultural differences within India. What surprises me in this case is that they are not even aggregating the main news. The rape, no matter how brutal, was…

Yes, Jezebel, we all know by now how bad India is for women. As an Indian woman, I agree with you on that. However, can you please do some good reporting on an important women's topic? I know this site has no journalistic aspirations and serves only to copy and post things from other news sites. In that case, why not…

There is a huge difference between getting sick due to infections and developing allergies. Children will get sick no matter what you do, specially if they are in constant contact with other children. It usually builds up their immune system. I was a very sickly child and got every infection possible from typhoid to…

Getting sick as a child has pretty much nothing to do with developing a whole bunch of allergies to food and environmental factors. None of the diseases you mention are allergic responses. Nobody is stopping people from washing hands after playing in the park. This study is about the pervasive use of anti-bacterial…