RACISM
Last week the Indian press carried full length news on bullying of SHILPA SHETTY by the other housemates in the BIG BROTHER CHANNEL 4call it a frantic attempt by a fading star to regain her lost glory or call it the WEST'S attitude towards the EAST,shilpa managed to create a few ripples in the international arena...RACISM exist in any civilised ociety...even india is not free from this virus...racism exist within Indian bondaries..one may wonder...classification based on skin colour or what...na....the tag here is"BY THE PEOPLE 4 THE PEOPLE"India is divided into 4 zones namely north,south eastn west each with its lifestyle n even gods i hail from south comprising of kerala,thamilnadu,karnataka n andhrapradesh.i belong to malayalee community which boasts of highest literary rate in India(98%)be it aerospace,IT parks... famed IIT and IISC....whatever be the advances made by the south the people..the north zone fails to recognise it..during my short stint with the north (did ma schooling there)i came into terms with racism within India.even though ma name doesn't sound southish ,ma accent does..it did fetch me a new name..."MADRASI" the north people know only one class of south people..they poke fun of your dialect,hair colour ( jet black hair)they even think south people eat dosa(food item)365 a year...their attitude towards south is not a hostile one so is their attitude towards other zones .....when racism exist within india what right do Indians(including me)have,to question the west's attitude towards he east????(at least the skin colour differnce is more pedominant than the difference between south n north)racism cannot be tamed ..even law is not strong enough to dig its teeth into this ugly piece of junk well we gotta...live...with it ,over it n even beat it..