While the news on the 2013 Miss America has been having some controversial buildups across social media and the internet about her being an immigrant, some of them even passing racist remarks against this young excited woman who has probably just set foot to tread on her path of dreams, our Indian counterparts on the other end of the globe have left no stone unturned either in claiming how dark she is and perhaps how she would not even have been close to being a Miss India, had she been living there. Obsession for "fair skin" has become such a deep rooted open secret in the Indian society and it all the more implies if you are a girl. Growing up watching all sorts of ads on products challenging to lighten your skin in 'x' number of days with the promise to give your money back incase it didn't work, and having a slightly "tan" colored skin compared to the many people in my family, I did hear bits and pieces of "advice" on how I should not...