fashion maven masaba gupta who has always been outspoken and voice of body positivity raises concern of racial discrimination in the society today sepaking about the recent campaign of black lives matter in the us and all over the world masaba voiced out that we need to first take care of our brown lives matter in india and then worry about the us she finds it bizarre that racism that is done so far away from home is creating such an uproar look at the kind of racism people who are dark skinned in this country have to face she believes that if indians say it just as a joke one thinks it will pass indian culture has engrained idea of being fairskinned related to success and one thinks that is the truthmasaba unabashedly says that unfortunately the beauty fashion and bollywood industry are to be blamed and that how many times do you hear that you have to be fair skinned to land a certain role or an advertisement in a recent interview masaba said that it is easier for us to speak because it is not happening in our backyard i had a really tough time in school everyone used to be like oh my god why do you keep talking about it it is not a big deal the fact of the matter is that it is a big deal i grew up thinking i was inferior to whiteskinned people and as a child if you are conditioned like this it becomes a part of your upbringing that you believe that probably because i look like this i wont get anywhere in lifeshe further went to say that on a common persons level one should not let anything pass you have to pull people up however she still doesnt think that is the solution because she believes we are a country where we think something is going to change when a bollywood star or a cricketer come out and say you dont have to fair skinned to be successful we dont have any other heroes in our country the designer was quick enough to quip that i am a designer nobody is going to give a damn about me i am talking about actors who are veterans and if they come out and speak about it then things might change