Barbie Indian Doll (styles may vary)

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Barbie is an idea,” said Seema Chawla, the head of marketing of Mattel in India, where the new line is slated to arrive in April. “Her popularity was proof of the fact that she allowed girls to imagine what they could be. She was a fashionista, a family woman, a princess and the president. They wanted to be like her.” At that time, she was inarguably American. “Indian Barbie had the exact same physique as the standard blonde Barbie with the same height and circumferential measurements,” Nemani explained. “The doll’s pigmentation was deepened only by a slight degree, and her eyes were made hazel rather than blue. Yet Indian Barbie shared the same pink lips, coy smile, shining eyes, and fictitious physique as the American Barbie.” Since people were so desperate to see desi celebs as Barbies, online fashion police Diet Sabya curated a list of female Indian celebs as Barbies and gave a funny twist to their characters. Priyanka Chopra’s Barbie is “Girl don’t yell, we are here for love.” Image Source Deepika Padukone’s Barbie is “Patchouli Pathaan.” Image Source Alia Bhatt’s Barbie is “Screaming Shivaaaaaa.” Image Source Katrina Kaif’s Barbie is “A Bhabhi.” Image Source Anushka Sharma’s Barbie is “Causing a traffic jam.” Image Source Sonam Kapoor’s Barbie is “OG fashion gworl.” Image Source Kareena Kapoor Khan’s Barbie is “A Bandra wali.” Image Source Natasha Poonawalla’s Barbie is “Mrs. Vaccine.” Image Source Kangana Ranaut’s Barbie is against “Bhikari movie mafia.” Image Source Urvashi Rautela’s Barbie is “Youngest human citizen universe winner.”

But Chawla seems to disagree. “Which child looks at a Barbie and sees it as vulgar or sexy? Kids don’t think about that. They think of the possibilities of being a beautiful and confident grown-up.” There was a closed trade regime and licensing system, so Mattel entered into a joint venture with the company Blow Plast Inc. Barbie was finally launched in India in 1991-’92. I grew up in a Barbie household, as well as a deeply feminist household. Along with My Little Pony, Cherry Merry Muffin, and (prized above all) my extensive collection of She-Ra action figures, my mother gave me and my sister Barbie dolls for “imaginative play,” something Mom encouraged just as much as she encouraged us to play video games — for hand-eye coordination and for our potential careers in STEM, naturally.However, Chawla points out that Barbie was never meant to be an Indian Barbie. “It was a part of an International series of what would happen if Barbie went to India. It was meant more as a souvenir for NRIs and tourists.” See her Poetry Society of America introduction or her conversation with PBS NewsHour for two notable examples. — Return to review

If you love playing new and old Barbie games, then you’ll probably like many of the games in these categories: But Barbie stays one step ahead of that thought, because it’s all leading up to an expert commentary on how little girls will always realize, sooner or later, that the real world is run by men, and that its Kens have more power than its Barbies. And once Gosling’s Ken makes it to Reality, he realizes this too, and he goes full men’s rights activist, transitioning from Barbie’s placeholder boyfriend into one of the most fascinating antagonists in modern pop cinema.Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community. She earned a BA from Old Dominion University, where she received a full athletic scholarship. Diaz played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before returning to Old Dominion to earn an MFA. She is the author of the poetry collections Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), which New York Times reviewer Eric McHenry described as an “ambitious … beautiful book.” Her other honors and awards include the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the Narrative Poetry Prize, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship.