Do not be a northerner or a southerner, Be an INDIAN
When I think of racism, the recent incident that I could
possibly recollect is what had happened on one night of my college life. It was
a Saturday night when I left our hostel during a weekend for the movie with my
friends. It was during that course of time I encountered the most heart
breaking moment, which I myself feel down when I look over it . We set our
journey to KG Theatre and the bus driver pushed the accelerator ambitiously. At
the very next stop, the most sympathetic guy boarded on , who was opposite in color, same in sex ,
differed in the geographical location, a person of lower esteem, not so popular
profession, not so rude when compared to the conductor, if one of those were
the reasons for the conductor’s unappreciable racist behavior. The North Indian
guy asked for the ticket with a Ten rupee note, for the nine rupees ticket and
the conductor scolded in harsh words, as he knew that our innocent guy would
not be able to understand what comes out of his mouth , for not providing the exact
change with him. The conductor could have requested or insisted him politely
for that, but he was rude enough to draw attention of everyone in the bus as we
all knew what those words meant and what he was up to. On having looked at the incident,
I could only guess that he was not contented of his rudeness. The guy was asked
to pay for the small bag he was carrying . Before the guy could speak
something, or even resist, the conductor kept his hands over our guy’s shoulder
and began pushing forcefully enough to humiliate him in front of public. The
guy, however at last tried to take money from his pocket telling something,
which conductor without even understanding a word of it , asked the guy to get out of the
bus. Then, we got out of the bus hurriedly as it was getting late for the movie
leaving behind the thought of what was the result of the argument between an
innocent Indian and the racist conductor.
I could not get better sleep that night. That incident left
me with the following thoughts. Why are people so rude? Why was the conductor
so rude? Was he rude just because the innocent guy is a
North Indian or Was it because he had had arguments with his wife the previous
night? Didn’t he like the silence of that guy? Was he resembling someone he had
always hated? All these provided me , however with the clear thought and the
solution. Whatever might the reasons be for his harsh behavior. Here, don’t
think that I am being stereotypical either in supporting a North Indian guy or
hating a South Indian guy , after all we all are Indians by birth. One’s self
feelings should not be a cause for disturbing or distracting from performing
his duty . One must be humble with everyone especially with the ones who are inferior
to them.(Sorry, I got to mention atleast here). Keep your cool under all
circumstances. Looking down on others is the root cause for aggression, which
inturn is the root cause for unknowingly making arch enemies and resulting in terrorism. So, the root is the superiority
complex. Kindly do come out of it. Treat everyone as your own brothers and
sisters. The phrase, All Indians are my brothers and sisters should not just be
a saying but you all should be the living examples of those proud lines .
PS- My kind apologies for the poor vocabulary , i hope my dear Indians would not mind that :)
This post is delayed because of various reasons and it took till this Diwali to be published.
Hapiieeee Diwali Friends :)
