Urvashi

"WHAT have you done!?”
“I have dipped myself in black vegetable dye.”
“WHY?”
“Um, it’s fun? Why are you so scandalized?”
“Because we’re um, WHITE.”
“Yeah, but now I’m black. There’s not much I can do about it.”
“You can wash it off, can’t you!?”
“Erm, no, not really. It was permanent vegetable dye.”
“OH MY GOD. So what do you expect your father and I and the rest of the community to do, Sebastian!? You can’t be the ONLY black one.”
“Well mother, I could source large amounts of permanent black vegetable dye?”


(poster next to a blackboard)