Niram

from Dharm by Soara

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Fairness Creams are amongst the most widely sold beauty products in several African and Asian countries. Now marketed as "lightening creams", corporations seek to profit from the long-held fallacy, amongst some of the populace, that ones health, wealth, attractiveness and happiness is easier to achieve with a lighter skin tone.

"39% of 15-34 year olds in a pan-Indian survey agreed to using lightening creams due to this association" - Statista

lyrics

The rainbow has seven colors
The Indian flag has three colors
The parrot has five colors
For Peace, there’s only one

Color of the skin doesn’t indicate status
Color of the skin doesn’t highlight my qualities
Color of the skin doesn’t indicate pride
Color of the skin doesn’t display the depth of my knowledge

Creams and cosmetics on my skin
Discrimination, all across the city
Humanity is forgotten
Society has been poisoned

Beauty is the new high
Intelligence, now deemed a madness
The moment you discriminate black and white
You become a traitor to the entire nation

Discrimation is a slow poison
Which kills human emotions layer by layer

Don’t paint me with your color
I’m more than you see
Earth is brown , the night is black
The colors shall set you free

credits

from Dharm, released October 2, 2020
Akhilesh Rao
Karthik Ramasubamanian
Hannes Grossmann
Kingsly Samuel

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about

Soara San Francisco, California

Soara is a two-man project, currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area, originally from Mumbai & Chennai, India.

Combining ethereal soundscapes with dense drumming and soulful Carnatic vocals, the music seeks to address deep systemic issues prevalent in Eastern cultures and portray the resilience, not often eschewed by the oppressed. ... more