Its a general school of perverse thought that is deep rooted and the recent NE exodus from southern cities are reflections of it. The bloodshed & gore occurring in Assam between Bodos & immigrants wouldn't have taken a communal shape if news channels and media made true projections that the riots were a clash for political supremacy and dominance. But the fact still remains the lack of awareness of the general public (including educated/school & college students) who still cannot differentiate a North Eastern from a Nepali or Burman or Chinese or Japanese or Indonesian or any other slit-eyed yellow skinned for that matter. Its both shameful and sad that even after struggling through 65 years of independence together as a country, the seven sisters still receive a step-motherly treatment.
I was given the role of a waitress in a play once because thats what we do! (LMAO :D)
Racial discrimination has turned into a daily part & parcel of my life and my family, cousins, relatives, friends once we venture out from our home states. Once an auto driver checked whether I paid him Indian currency! Besides these funny experiences there are the intolerable ones that go beyond jokes & laughter. Eve-teasing, name calling, bullying are actually the lighter sides of this perversion (to them, not to us). The unwarned sudden attacks on the Manipuri students & workers in Secunderabad & Hyderabad as knee-jerk reaction to the doctored videos of killings in Myanmar, which again wasn't a religious conflict, are subtle hints to enemy who target at nothing else but weak points of our nation.
I was given the role of a waitress in a play once because thats what we do! (LMAO :D)
Racial discrimination has turned into a daily part & parcel of my life and my family, cousins, relatives, friends once we venture out from our home states. Once an auto driver checked whether I paid him Indian currency! Besides these funny experiences there are the intolerable ones that go beyond jokes & laughter. Eve-teasing, name calling, bullying are actually the lighter sides of this perversion (to them, not to us). The unwarned sudden attacks on the Manipuri students & workers in Secunderabad & Hyderabad as knee-jerk reaction to the doctored videos of killings in Myanmar, which again wasn't a religious conflict, are subtle hints to enemy who target at nothing else but weak points of our nation.
