![]() Today Rajasingh lives in the southern Indian city of Madurai, where she drives a pink mini-Cooper and runs a bakery and lives in an apartment that are dominated by that color. "And now it's become my identity." For her, the color represents love, joy, femininity and playfulness, everything she once associated with Barbie, she says. ![]() "My love for the color pink began with my childhood passion for Barbie," she says. She says she didn't like the Indian ethnic ones that came on the local market. On Rajasingh's 14th birthday, her parents painted her room bright pink and hired artists to draw her favorite Barbie dolls on the walls.Īll her Barbies were blond. Since her family ran a hotel, they put the dolls on display in the lobby in the late '90s. The mermaid Barbie and scuba-diving Barbie were her favorites. She once owned a Barbie camper, a speedboat, supermarket and post office. When Vichitra Rajasingh was growing up, family and friends helped her build her collection of Barbie dolls until she had almost 80 of them. She's one of India's biggest Barbie fans.
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