Glow drips, anti-ageing infusions, bridal concoctions—the dicey promise of India’s beauty hustlers
They usually promote enterprises that promise to slay all things “toxin”, “inflammation”, or “free radicals”. Culturally extrapolated to India, they have turned into friends and emancipators of the dark-skinned—the skin colour we as a nation consider a curse. A tour of the rooms of the wellness clinic had me gobsmacked—and even aspirational. It challenged my…