Growing up, I was always impressed by the way my mother would drape her sari. 

 

Growing up, I always wondered why I wasn't really allowed to wear shorts whenever I would visit India. 

 

Growing up, I always wondered more about my fat thighs, the rich butter that added those rolls, and the skinny model that I wasn't. 

 

Being ethnically Indian makes me realize of the many standards that has labelled Indian women. In this rapidly evolving world of the ‘Me Too’ movement, wage gap, discrimination, and the unfortunate social levels of hierarchy between the misogynists and feminists, I believe that addressing these standards are important culturally, globally, and socially for the greater good of the world. 

 

In the Indian community, women are often subjected to beauty standards around skin color and expectations around clothing and body image. Fair & Lovely skin whitening creams that make your skin 'glow,' "she" is the cause of her own rape because "she" wore a tank top, and she is not normal because she has those stomach rolls and is too curvy, are some of the statements that I grew up hearing. 

 

In my three episodes, I interview my guests to speak on such three different themes: “What clothes should(n’t) you wear?”, “Does size really matter?”, and “What is the obsession with light skin?”.

 

The main emphasis for this project is to inform, educate, and showcase personal experiences of three Indian women from across the globe, currently studying at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, speaking to their specific experiences on certain standards normalized in the Indian society.