This documentary time-travels to an era when dark skin was highly esteemed in India https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=47415 A joint India-Italy documentary recounts the travels of Marco Polo and Niccolo de Conti, using traveler manuscripts and local iconography to present claims about historical beauty standards, festival observances, and contested identifications of European-looking figures in temple engravings, while noting scholarly disagreement and framing the film as a cultural-diplomatic project supported by heritage and tourism bodies. en-us Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:01:03 +0530 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:01:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator This documentary time-travels to an era when dark skin was highly esteemed in India https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=47415 A joint India-Italy documentary recounts the travels of Marco Polo and Niccolo de Conti, using traveler manuscripts and local iconography to present claims about historical beauty standards, festival observances, and contested identifications of European-looking figures in temple engravings, while noting scholarly disagreement and framing the film as a cultural-diplomatic project supported by heritage and tourism bodies. News - Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:01:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=47415