Right, so after years of Racism being given the blind eye as if it never existed, all of a sudden, it is THE one thing that everyone is making a big hue and cry about. Especially with the whole Shilpa Shetty’s big brother controversy and the most recent controversy with Harbhajan Singh that has happened, all of a sudden the Indian inside awakens and doesn’t want to tolerate any kind of behavior that is insulting in terms of their race.

However, the irony remains that back home these very Indians are the ones that haven’t let go of their old school of thoughts. When it comes to classifying ‘people’ into different caste systems, the SAME people readily will do so and classify everybody in this utterly useless system which was built for no apparent reason. People are identified not by their merits but rather by their caste and of course the ’status’ that they hold in the society, which again was built by the SAME people!

Until now, intercaste marriages are still not welcomed into their families with open arms. To marry someone out of your own caste is frowned upon by these so called societies which were made by – u guessed it- the SAME people!

Every time there’s an announcement of a couple who is going out, about to get married etc the first thing people ask “Is he from the same community?” I mean Isn’t that being racist?

It’s a shame that in this day and age, the caste system still exists, sometimes even within the same community.

So the whole hoopla about racist comments and behavior, of course that shouldn’t happen but what I’d like to highlight in this post would be the case of “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones” – it’d be nice to have a reality check in their own country first.

It would be nice if they learn a lesson from whatever has happened in the past and unite as “Indians” and accept each other as “Indians” first, and feel the pride of being an Indian and fight against racism,  only then will the Indian inside truly awaken.

Rash