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Sunday, June 17, 2007 | 7 Comments
Racism has always been a hot topic in the news. Cricketers like Gibbs have been caught on tape(audio) making racist comments. Racism is nothing new in football either. And how can we forget the recent Shilpa Shetty - Jade Goody Big Brother controversy? We Indians cry foul at the slightest slip of the tongue. Just today, I read that NRIs in USA are upset over president hopeful Barrack Obama insulting rival Hillary Clinton due to her connection with Indians.

One more thing currently in the news is Atlantis and Sunita Williams. I do hope that history does not repeat and Atlantis returns safely. But I do have one problem with the whole thing. All the news channels in India are projecting Sunita Williams as some kind of demi-god just because she is said to be of "Indian" origin. Come on!! If Sunita Williams has to be idolized like this, then why are we forgetting people like Ramnaresh Sarwan, Shivnaraine Chanderpaul, Nasser Hussain and Mark Ramprakash? They too are as Indian as Williams. And why only Sunita Williams? Why do we forget that there are six other people on board with her whose lives are in as much of danger as our very own "Indian" Sunita?

When Columbia crashed, the world was terribly shocked. Condolences were offered to Kalpana Chawla's family. She deserved every bit of it. I am sure that each reader of this post was very disturbed. I am also very sure that not many people even tried to find out the names of the other six people who lost their lives. How is this fair? Isn't this a form of racism? We try to crusade against racism but we fail to realize that it is not something that dropped down from the skies below. Till we change our individual style of thinking, a racism free world will remain a dream.

PS: Don't even bother to ask me the names of the seven Columbia astronauts. I know them already along with their nationalities. And why did I write about such a serious topic? Lets put it like this, desperate people take desperate measures.


posted by Abhishek Shetty @ 5:48 PM
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