Draupadi would not have looked like the TV version

Transcript

This depiction in Mahabharats that you have seen on television is actually wrong. See, in the original Sanskrit text, Trapadi is explicitly described as Krishna, which means the dark one who was extremely beautiful and dark-skinned. And she's not the only one, Lord Krishna. He wasn't blue either. His name Krishna and Shambh both literally mean black or dark. And you know, in parts of India, this preference for dark-skinned was so strong that when Marco Polo visited India in the 13th century, he was totally confused. He wrote that here the darkest man is the most highly esteemed. He even noted that Indians painted their gods black and their devils white as snow. So what changed? See, the British Raj actually flipped the script, projecting fairness or requirement for power. And while they were ruling us, Victorian women in Europe were actually eating and applying arsenic, a literal poison just to look pale enough to be considered beautiful. And today, while the West is hitting tanning beds to look less pale, we here are spending billions on white men's creams.

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