Ariana Gupta is not yet an adult, and she's already challenging age-old stereotypes. A student of RN Podar High School, Santacruz, still in her 12th grade, the school topper  wants to become a graphic designer, and has already started working towards it. As part of her portfolio, she got her girlfriends together for a photo-shoot. "I took fairytale characters and got my friends to dress up like them. A lot of it had to do with challenging the conventional beauty standards that fairytales have set. For instance, Snow White is fair, and in India, we continue to link fairness to beauty. My Snow White had almost all skin tones. Once I was done, I realised that this had the potential to turn into a book."

Scenes from New Age Fairy Tales