New Delhi: Racism can't be condoned anywhere in the world. And so bloggers are asking the question that while Indians are up in arms about racism against Indians abroad, what about racism within the nation. Do we ever ask ourselves that question?
Indian citizens from the Northeast states are even in so-called cosmopolitan cities like Delhi treated as second class citizens and not considered Indians.
They are called names and made fun of for their eating habits. Delhi for example is home to a large number of students from the Northeast. A study by Dr Renu Naidu involving 2000 students from 10 colleges in DU led to some shocking and shameful revelations.
Apart from the derogatory references, people from the north east are regularly cheated in the city. And even worse, girls are regularly subjected to the worst sort of sexual harassment.
Multiculturalism has made much progress and a number of different cultures exist together now but still some of our communities remain in a ghettoized state. David Buhril, a blogger from the Northeast says incidents of racism in the north are not isolated but enough to shame the nation. And that out celebration of diversity is nothing but a farce if the nation remains silent to the domestic realities of racial abuse and discrimination.