Nandita Das, actor, addressed a Std IX audience at a school in Kurla recently. She was talking  to the students about discrimination, especially prejudice about skin colour but a host of other biases too, some overt and the others we may harbour sub-consciously. The actor was part of a Teach for India project.

We had some takeaways from the address which was reported in the paper. The first one is to have these conversations with teenagers and not to shy away from discussing or asking uncomfortable questions. There was a lot one could learn from the kids too, as they shared their experiences about how they had felt targeted because of skin colour.