Sunday, November 21, 2010

Is India right in talking against racial discrimination



There has been a lot of media hype about the racial attacks on Indians mainly in Australia. Media blew up the issue saying Australian are racially motivated. But we as Indian, are we right in even complaining against the discrimination when there is so much of discrimination among ourselves interns of castes and religion.
It is a known fact that Indian has a long tradition of caste discrimination. The discrimination is to such an extent that so called dalit are not even allowed to step into the colonies of the so called upper castes. The very problem of naxalism is dogging India just because of this discrimination. When we have such a big problem on our lap, is it right to talk about the discrimination to a rich brat abroad who faced the heat for some reason which is not even clear.
When it comes to actually racism India is no better. So i would like to say this there is no point in talking against something which India has been practicing for centuries. If the caste-ism is not racism then why people are denied houses for rent just because they are of different caste. When ever there is a communal problem these dalits are made scapegoats by training them to attack others and if you see the death tool of dalits and other castes in these kind of violences, the no of deaths in the   so called upper classes are almost nil when compared to Dalits. They are even offered water in the coconut shells. That is the extent so discrimination we have. Isn't this racism?
Not only the casteism but also the discriminating and contempt towards the people of different region is very distressing to see. When the tourist come from the west and other countries people wont think of anything other than robing them.
So we have to acknowledge that racism is present even in India also and there is no point in complaining about the discrimination we face outside as we will be getting the same treatment what we have netted out to our own people. .....

Monday, November 1, 2010

Kashmir, too far on a wrong track



Let me just remind you the times when Hindi was declared the national language and there were riots in states of Tamil nadu and Kerala. The situation was so tense that they were even ready to ask for a different nation but they recovered their sanity and looked in the future, now Tamil nadu is on of the most industrialized state and Chennai is one os the worlds fastest growing cities.
The reason why i mentioned this is to point out the similarities between the two regions and situations. the root cause of the Kashmir situation is similar to that of the problems which were faced by Tamil nadu. I wanted o point out the equal amount of potential in both the regions. So why should they spoil their future by creating such nuisance and listening to the meaningless calls of Pakistan for so called Azad Kashmir. In my point of view they should aim to exploit their potential in the fields tourism through which they can become economically stronger like the states of Goa which wholly depends upon tourism and has a strong economy too. By organizing strikes or bundhs they are loosing out on their own business and they are the who is losing out on their jobs. Instead of being mislead by the likes of LeT or Pakistan they should use their use their conscience.
I strongly believe that they should keep aside the pointless things like religion and culture and look for a better and economically stronger future as at the end of the day thats what matter, it really doesn't matter whether the majority of the population is Hindu or Muslim.
My only question is that can Pakistan or Kashmir's independent govt give better administration and economic development? Because thats what really matters.