Till now I was unaware of the extent to which this epidemic has spread in the minds of people. One of my friends roommate, who happens to be from North, was tortured by her roo mate, a South Indian, for using the geyser. The allegations by the South Indian girl were that my friend abused her physically and mentally, along with verbal abuse. Surprisingly, my friend hardly ever raises her hand on anyone. Actually, she was paying the price of being a North Indian in a South Indian region. The matter did not end here. The South Indian girl took the issue to the hostel authorities, who, to my friend's surprise, were supporting the South Indian, without even letting her speak. The hostel authorities made my friend apologize for troubling a localite!!!
This is only one incident,which i came across. I am sure that many of us would have seen or heard about such incidents. The end result is- my friend would never like to come back here. She has developed a disliking for the people here, which is very bad. Unfortunately, the South indians could not win somebody's heart. We talk about concepts like Incredible India, tourism etc, welcoming people from abroad and making them feel at home where as we don't consider our countrymen as our own people!! What an irony!!
Why do people categorize their own brothers and sisters on the basis of the language they speak! Can't we accept them is our own, irrespective of what they eat and what they wear?? Why divide and make things complicated??
Let these categories be only a label on the paper and not on our hearts and minds. Let us treat everyone as our own. Let the Samosas be served with sambhar and let chole with dosa be a deadly combo!!. God did not label us while creating us. He just created us with lot of love and care. Every human is unique.Let us respect that. The person's deeds should be the deciding criteria to judge what and how is he..not his language...
Let us try and make Our India..Incredible...in the actual sense.....!!!!
Hi BPT,
ReplyDeleteSometimes its easy to talk equality and brotherhood but hard to put it into practice. Human s have an instict of belongingness which is interwoven into language and culture too and hence the divide. But i think, as you ve mentioned one should be open enough or rather pacific enough not to be a war momngerer!
I would suggest you read " hegemony and survival". its nice book by chomsky.
cheers
@- Adi
ReplyDeleteMy point is that if you are not able to be good to anyone, its ok. But at least don't be bad to them.
Every individual has the right to choose whom he wants to speak to and whom he doesn't. I agree people do have a soft corner for people from their state, cast, religion, but does that mean that one should hate the others?? Loving one person doesn't mean that you should hate the others. One can behave neutrally with the person and continue to have the soft corner for THEIR people... Isin't it??
We face this a lot in my class, college... north Indians and south Indians never come together... During Class Representative elections, north Indians vote for only north Indians and south Indians vote for only south Indians. During any college fests or functions, if the food consists of roti puri, south Indians crib about it and if the food contains curd rice, sambhar and rasam, north Indians crib about it. even in the streets, auto drivers behave badly with you if he comes to know that u r not a kannadiga. Favourism is every where Bhargavi... And Im proud of the fact that u, me, our brothers, we know both hindi as well as south Indian language. And we four call ourselves as Indian rather than south Indian or North Indian... Jai Hind!!!!!
ReplyDeletei think biasing is in human nature irrespective of being indian (south or north), it is also there outside india...muslim christian....black white...it is everywhere...bt still from some point it has to change...
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