दबा के आई है सीने में कौन सी आहें

दबा के आई है सीने में कौन सी आहें

कुछ आज रंग तेरा सांवला लगे है मुझे

जाँ निसार अख़्तर 

I sometimes get incensed at the racist 'apartheid' thinking of some of our top poets. Who makes these guys poets? The guys who seem to believe that being dark is an aberration and not a natural state. Of course the most famous among these apartheid poets was Kamaal Amrohi, who wrote

कहीं एक मासूम नाज़ुक सी लडकी

बहुत ख़ूबसूरत मगर सांवली सी

beautiful but dark. No wonder now they even have fair and handsome cream for men. 

But apart from the rant, the thought is interesting.