A white-skinned Indian couple are set to enter the record books along with their offspring, after becoming the world’s biggest albino family.
The ten members of the Pullan family, headed by Rosetauri, 50, and his wife Mani, 45, all have the extremely pale skin and near-white hair of albinos.
But despite years of prejudice and suffering the poor vision which is a side effect of the condition, the Pullans and their eight other family members are set to land a Guinness World Record
The Pullan’s sons Shankar, 24, Vijay, 25 and Ramkishan, 19, and daughters Renu, 23, Deepa, 21 and Pooja, 18, inherited their albinism, according to The Sun.
Renu married a man who also had albinism, Rosheh, 27, and the couple’s son Dharamraj, 2, also inherited the condition from his parents.
The family live in a one-bedroom flat in Delhi, and say many fellow Indians find it hard to believe they were born and bred in the country.
Roseturai Pullan told The Sun: ‘I’ve heard people call us ‘angrez’, which means ‘English’.
‘All we know is that we can’t see properly, and we can’t sit under the sun for long, but we live the best we can.
‘People in Delhi are a little more open-minded, but many think we’re foreigners.’
Albinism affects around one in 17,000 people.
Those with the condition do not produce enough melanin pigment, which gives colour to the skin, hair and eyes and protects the body from the sun’s rays.
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I don’t agree with the saying “Albinism is just a color” its not just a color. Fine, they are human being but I don’t think they are normal being. The killing of albino should stop. Why should they get killed?
Obviously they are human,just like the black, just a different in skin colour …The killing should stop already! …