india divided
by hatred between communities.
by hatred between regions.
and not necessarily by the different religions
A traveller in her blog had stated:
india india
so here i am finally again. india india. somehow i feel like home but same time this feels a big chaos. or well landing in mumbai after peaceful and nice christmas holiday in finland…it can be a big change. and not much to say about mumbai but that i really did not like it. i love kolkata which is big and noisy but something there still makes me love it. in mumbai i did not see anything worth to stay more than 1 night.
This is a blog of a visitor writing of her own experiences.
One would assume that we would
acknowledge her capability to judge for her ownself
and respect her the right to decide as to what she likes and loves.
Not,
if Indians can help it.
Not if they dribble hatred
towards a community or city referred
and all the more vitriolic if it is about “the bengalis”.
So why wasn’t I surprised to read this first comment to the blog.
melbas said:
January 11, 2008 at 9:05 am
In Mumbai people actually do work.
It’s the commercial capital and contributes 25% of India GDP.
The bengali’s of Kolkata like to spend their time contradicting everything the central government says and then some years later doing what it had spent years arguing against and congratulating itself heartily for being such a progressive city.
Kolkata… yikes!
So this melbas has to poison the blogger’s mind.
Not only is his logic out of context to what the lady had written,
in his effort to malign a city he generalises a whole community – “the bengalis”.
That too, if his argument had any truth.
The government central government,
the government that is clinging to power
by forming a coalition with the same hated bengalis,
shamelessly holding hands with their sworn enemies the bengali communists.
The same government that turned a blind eye to the communists atrocities
in Nandigram
all in the name of holding onto power
and be able to twist the communist’s arm to accept the 123 agreement.
Hypocrisy so blatantly defined .
But this individual is not finished, yet.
melbas said
January 11, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I can’t tell whether you’re being sarcastic, but any people who radiate the hypocrisy and foolishness that the residents of that city do, deserve to be hated.
Not only must the Good be celebrated but the Bad must be put down.Anti-Indians, or should I say anti-hindus like the Bengalis, ultimately paint themselves into a corner, because their beliefs are based on jealously opposing a better and nicer people.
He now has to label all residents of the city (surely referring to bengalis only)
as hypocrites and foolish and Bad, to justify his hatred,
and to declare they be put down.
Bengalis are anti-Indians, and being hindus themselves they are anti-hindus.
And all non-bengalis are better and nicer people.
A delusion of grandeur.
Not content with the above, it returns again to spew some more venom.
melbas said,
January 11, 2008 at 11:13 pmThe truth if the matter is that people don’t derogate Kolkata. They will complain about the poverty, slums, beggars and crime elsewhere, but refuse to mention any of these when discussing Kolkata. These things are actually cheered on. The propaganda that has been spread over the decades, makes it “cool” to derogate all other cities except Kolkata.
And all this because a lady had blogged to say she loved Kolkata.
Propaganda!
This individual doesn’t begin to understand the meaning of it.
This, sadly, is the reality of regional hatred and the true communalism in India.
I am glad that this commenter himself/herself is not a bengali ,
I would hate to think there are any such morons amongst the bengalis.
The “melbas”es of India will carry on living with unreal beliefs,
in an unreal world, rotting away inside with hatred.
India, you may be shining,
but deep in your heart there is only hatred.
Who needs to play politics with religion to fragment India into bits,
when there are poisonous minds like these burning with hatred, day after day.
MsCutePants said this on January 14th, 2008 at 04:13
Unfortunate. The India I grew up in prided itself on unity. For pete’s sake, is no one allowed to say they like one city over the other without receiving a barrage of hostile and truly undeserving comments.
littleindian said this on January 14th, 2008 at 16:58
Thanks MsCutePants,
Seems not anymore.
Worse, this was done deliberately to poison a foreigner’s mind.
I wonder what impression that lady will have about India.
mysoul said this on January 16th, 2008 at 17:27
Isnt it amazing to see how people behave inspite of having shining examples from the same land? Isnt it amazing that inspite of all the history that we learn we still repeat the same mistakes? Isnt it amazing that no matter how rationally/logically/truthfully we argue our points, we are looking to make ourselves Bigger, Better, Higher than those we call OTHERS?
The one thing I really wish we Indians could emulate is to behave through instead of giving into our emotions. Its sort of catch 22, we wouldnt be Indians if we werent given to having such heightened passions and sensitivity when we hear any opinion of us, that we dont agree with.
littleindian said this on January 17th, 2008 at 16:17
Thanks mysoul
for stopping by,
I apologise for a delayed response.
I do not visit too often, that too only to vent my anger.
I am fairly disillusioned by the blogosphere,
too much of soap box, too much of hot air.
And then I read comments like the one I blogged about…