Are Indians The Most Racist People On Earth?


When Indyan met both Sedition and Perdition recently, he was seething with moral indignation and trembling with rage at the racist world that exists outside India.

It is quite appalling, he began his cliché , reflecting the viewpoint shared by several of his countrymen, looking angrily at Sedition.

First, these racist Americans ask President Kalam to remove his shoes and frisk him. Now, they detain Shah Rukh Khan, confusing him, we are told with some dangerous namesake, deny him even a phone call and treat him like a terror suspect. I condemn it.

He looked eagerly at the duo for some moral seconding. He found none, yet he continued. Across Australia, they attack Indian students because of their colour and country of origin. This is so demeaning, he argued.

Sedition intervened. What is upsetting you? That Americans actually suspected either Kalam or SRK, or that they conducted routine security checks on them, or it happened to VIPs, or that they were Muslims, or that we failed to respond quid pro quo? That it was racist or that it happened to us abroad?

Confused, Indyan looked to Perdition for help. Perdition, instead, fully backed his partner.

In stark violation of the rules, we know in India an SRK will never get properly checked while boarding an airplane, except after he has been paid millions and it is part of a movie shoot. Naturally, he felt upset. Why did Kalam choose to fly with an American airline when we have Air India? In India, no rules apply for VIPs, so naturally they get upset when they have to stand in queues and undergo regular treatment like others. So, all this is not about injustice but about the denial of privilege, itself a form of gross injustice.

Are you saying there is no element of racism in this at all, demanded

Indyan angrily. Can America racially profile us and get away with it?

So what? Every country does it. Saudi Arabia does it all the while — advertising for Muslims-only jobs in India. All Muslims countries do it in open forms, Communist nations did it, but worse, we in India do it all the time. How much of prejudice we in India have against Muslims is well known, isn’t it?

We cannot be racist. We all belong to one race, argued Indyan, albeit with little conviction.

How about trying to find a rented house in Ahmedabad or Mumbai? Even by smaller Bollywood actors? How about gender?

Is a housing society not entitled to do a check on people moving into their residential block, defended Indyan. Can we not run a check before we hire a driver, or a marry a woman, or employ someone?

That, if it constantly results in denying something to a set of people — not marrying women because of the colour of their skin, not hiring someone because of his religion, or not allowing a set of people to rent or buy apartments — is the worst form of profiling. Of racist prejudice and oppression, proclaimed SedPerd.

Can a man be called racist because he wants to marry a fair complexioned or beautiful girl?

If a whole nation is obsessed with it, if fairness skin creams sell into millions, and if that becomes our sole idea of beauty, YES. It is racist.

How about the violence against Indian students in Australia?

How about caste? Consider 1984, Bhagalpur, Godhra... and our special love for Muslims under TADA and POTA. How about the violence against Biharis or UP bhaiyas in Mumbai? How about caste prejudice in Panchayats? How about fatwas against youngsters for marrying someone outside their caste?

So does that justify SRK being detained, asked Indyan.

Don’t even bother about it, laughed SedPerd. He convinced the US Government to join him in promoting his next movie. I suspect this might be part of the Anil Ambani-Spielberg agreement and don’t think Emraan Hashmi did not try the same thing with our media. But he was fighting for the plain issue of justice, that too in India. Besides, there was no great cause he had, like a Bollywood film to promote.

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