ल हेर्नुहोस यस्ती खराब भाउजु भए पछि - भिडियो सहित

'The things you never notice as a child," Norah Casey says, as she proffers her phone, which displays a snap she has taken of an old black-and-white family photo. In it are various members of her extended family and her mother, as a young woman, with her hands on the shoulders of a man sitting in front of her. Even as Norah hands me the phone, what stands out is how much darker that man's skin is compared to the skin of all the other Irish people in it, pictured at the beach, probably some time in the 1950s.never even noticed that his skin was darker until I knew," says Norah. The man in question is her father's stepbrother, Patrick, known in the family as Parky. He and Norah's dad, Harry, had the same mother, whose own mother, Elizabeth Meeroe, was Indian, born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the early 1800s. So, the stepbrothers were both one-quarter Indian, though Parky's skin was, by chance, darker than Harry's. "But all of us on my dad's side of the family have dark hair and dark eyes, and some of my cousins are very dark," says Norah. "We all have a certain look."

As a child, however, Norah never knew this about her family history. "It really wasn't talked about until I was in my teens," she explains. "Not until we were slightly older. I mean, growing up, there were Indian books in the house, and old cabinets and stuff like that, but they just got thrown out and nobody ever explained them. We didn't know about the family history until we were slightly older."


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