India debates beauty's true color in a fair skin era
In New Delhi and across India, skin lightening ads dominate billboards and matrimonial classifieds. The $100 million market reflects caste and colonial legacies, with elites wavering between embracing darker beauty and upholding lighter skin as a social advantage.
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Conjoined twins seek risky separation operation
In Singapore, 29-year-old Iranian sisters Ladan and Laleh Bijani face a marathon surgery to separate them after a lifetime of compromises. An international team of 28 doctors will perform the operation, with a 50-50 survival chance and a cost of 288000 underwritten by Raffles Hospital. Both sisters plan future careers once separated.
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