Tuesday, 9 June 2009

Domestic racism

Indian students have recently bore the brunt of racism in Australia and I as an Indian feel very angry about it. Every Indian in Australia has earned his/her own right to be there perhaps to the distaste of the locals there. But should I not feel proud of what is happenning to the Indians if I were Raj Thakeray. Why are the Indians there if it is not the place where they are born. After all it is not their Janmbhumi then why should it become their karmbhumi. If Mumbai is only for the mumbaikars, shouldn't Australia be only for Australians. I think Raj Thakeray would have personally congratulated those who stabbed the Indians after all their philosophy is the same as his. No Mumbaikar has the right to condemn this act of racism because they themselves are racists. I am sure some of the students in Australia would be from Mumbai but I do not feel sympathy because when the their felllow Indians' fundamental rights were being violated they silently condoned the act. Regionalism is nothing but domestic racism where a person from a particular region feels he is superior than people from other region of the same country. This government is trying to pacify the victims of racism in Australia while they were trying to pacify the perpetrators of racism in Mumbai. It is the mentality of wild animals and stray dogs to forbid animal of the same species from entering their territory; are we not the same in that sense. Who says racists are different from street dogs.