Colour-coded classism in Indian ads

The Indian obsession with skin tone always baffles me. The country is home to a variety of skin bleaching products (even for intimate areas) and Bollywood stars are inevitably fair.

Even when advertisers are trying to do something good, they use fairer complexion as a symbol of success. These ads for an eye hospital that does free work for the "poor" shows the recipients with patched clothes, dark skin and wavy hair, while the benefactors are pale, well-dressed and straight-haired.

Any Indian readers care to comment on this?

Via Ads of the World

F'd Ad Fridays: Rich people problems

This campaign reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's rant about the wealthy, when he covered the Pulitzer divorce trial:

If we were "a generation away" from robots in the early 80s, then I guess these ads are just in time. Too bad there are so few rich people left in the world to appreciate them.

Via AoTW