Indians are not racists

After a really boring day at home the least one expects is to watch some decent programs on the tube. But all you get is Burkha Dutt. And not just any Burkha Dutt, this is the Burkha 'are Indians racist' Dutt. Booooring.

Well to settle this issue once and for all let me present a lucid and watertight argument on why Indians are not racist. Race is predominantly considered to be a cultural divide based on country of origin, color and other physical or external attributes. For further clarification you can refer this particular link: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/race.

Thus it can now be concluded with a certain degree of (for want of a word) certainty that we Indians belong to a single race. Since the whole talk is about discrimination based on race, it is impossible in India. There can be no racism between people belonging to the same race. So from this day onwards no one can call us racist.

But to give an interesting twist to the argument let me present to you the typical conversation in an Indian household looking for a groom:

Facing the computer, specifically a matrimony website, (where else but in India), are sitting two girls. They have just finished editing their profiles:

"Female, age 23 (oh! I am so old), height 5 4" (am I too tall?), weight 53 kg, complexion : fair, working with good salary, BA., M.B.A (Overqualified, never gonna get married). "

Some days later one girl gets a reply in her inbox. And she finds that she has as many as 16 applicants or should I say suitors. So she gets her friend home and they decide they will look over the profiles before they call her mom. Following are the reactions to the various suitors:

1. No, he is Tamilian. Nope! Tamilians are too talkative. They drink too. And I bet he is ugly.
2. Hell no! Not a golti (slang for Telugu people). They never bathe.
3. What a gujju!! ( gujarati) EWE the smell.
4.A mallu (malayali) never. All they do is smoke beedis and loll around..

The conversation goes on in a similar vein.. untill..

5. Look theres a photo in this profile. But it doesnt say where he is from, or what caste he belongs to. Who cares, He is FAIR. But we dont know if he is any good. Who cares he is FAIR. But, but.. Yeah I know he is FAIR.


So the real question that we must be asking ourselves is " Is Fair and Lovely the most successful branding and advertising exercise or is India the perfect ground for any fairness cream?"
Not 'Are Indians racist?' because we are not. You can call us casteist or colourist or regionist or linguist (sorry i don't know any other word for language based divides) but one thing we are not and thats racist.

P.S Generalizations are always misleading and incorrect so injured souls please forgive me. I am tamilian and I have found the above opinion of tamilians being drunkards and ugly on the inside useful in breaking a lot of bad dates and even worse fights.....

INDIA DENUDED

The talk of the day i guess is nudity. I have a couple of points to make and what better outlet than a blog?? I saw this news channel yesterday having a debate on the matter at hand.. To bring those of u who are bewildered up to date.... An arts student called Chandramohan painted a couple of nude renderings of hindu gods and jesus christ. These were exhibited in a private examination hall of his institute as the paintings were part of an examination process. Anyway a mob of activists supposedly belonging to some political group entered the hall without permission and destroyed the paintings. Chandramohan was arrested following this on grounds of hurtin the religious sentiments of the general public. Later the dean of the institute who protested against this arrest was suspended by the vice chancellor and he mysteriously disappeared. Anyway in the news channel NDTV to be precise the matter on debate was not Chandramohan but on nudity. The tv channel seemed to take the view that we the people must be more broad minded and take nudity in our stride. Well i ask the anchor this: How will she feel if the painting is of her and not the gods...
will she continue to vociferously support artistic freedom?? Yes Chandramohan was treated shabbily by the Govt. The activists had no right to step into the premises of the institute without prior notice and permission. But that does not justify the student's mistake. Is this what you want your children to grow thinking?? That it is allowed to defile the sentiments of others??
The question is not of religious belief. The question is of respecting the sentiments of your neighbours. And another very funny thing happening was the list of celibrity guests who were brought to the debate who were saying "much ado about nothing" then why were they on the show?? Really.... now... Is that the level of intelligence of the average news watcher??? What do they take us for?? I think it is time the news channels realised that their job is to present the NEWS and not their take on it.....