Harshi M

Our Colour-Coded World

There are few feelings that ever rivaled breaking open the seal of your brand new crayon box as a primary school student. No more borrowing crayons from the other kids at school. You could finally use any colour you wanted: Carnation Pink, Sky Blue, Brick Red. The anxiety of being stuck with the five most unwanted, useless colours to have ever existed in the Crayola world was gone. Brown. Black. Yellow. Red. White. With so many different colours to choose from, these five colours seemed boring and ugly in comparison. So, who felt the need to categorize seven billion human beings…

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