I spent great deal of time in US and returned. The stay in US made me realize what I missed and lost all those years. I had this feeling that one can survive anywhere in India. Sounded too cocky?? Well, yah why not it is my land.
The feeling brought me to a distant land which I never dreamt of when I returned. I set course to North for my living. Well, I come from a cosmopolitan city with colors. Moving to a distant land unimagined is a learning and thrilling experience atleast initially.
When I started to become one of them, few harsh realities started to surface. I was hurt when I was called "Madrasi". This word seems to pop up from most of them. It looks like this word is deeply engraved in many minds. Left alone uneducated, strangely from so called educated. Make fun of eating rice, yogurt, interestingly when use fingers to eat food and the way South Indians eat are common.
People wake up. I have an identity. Respect my traditions when I meant no harm to you all. I thank the bustling nature of my fantastic city Hyderabad who respects and invites migrants all across country. I do not rule out bias in my city but making mock of other traditions is crossing line and completely unacceptable.
Please tell me, mocking others way of living is ignorance or sheer arrogance?
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It is both ignorance and arrogance. Ignorance in people about the life outside of their own cocoon, arrogance that they are too superior to care to know, understand and appreciate other cultures. Either way loss is theirs. You see that difference in the way countries and cities that embrace other cultures develop compared to places that have this very closed mind-set. That’s what makes Hyd & Banglore the software & business hubs that they are. Similarly U.S. can attribute most of it’s success to diversity.
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