pt1982
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This is rampant...though in a certain mild way..but prejudice do exist..I am a Hindu Brahmin..I have faced this. I posted this in FB after watching the program on NDTV. I wrote this in the heat of the moment, but this close to what I believe in.
"Watched a show on NDTV by Barkha, which took up an issue that is very close to my heart.....
Is India a secular country? Have we been able to establish a prejudice free society in that last 65 years? Have we been matured enough to respect differences?
To my utter dismay, we are not. Where a Muslim is asked to wear its patriotism on the chest can not be secular. Bu I am optimistic that I will try my best to inculcate the spirit of secularism to each and all around me till my last breath.
I remember an incident which I witnessed in Pune while I went on a hunting for a rented home. I met the lady owner of the flat who happens to be a teacher, showed us the flat. When she thought we are ready to take that flat...she pushed us for advance and she was little desperate...I asked her the reason. She spilled the bean....
A Muslim couple visited her and they were ready to take possession. She was not comfortable with the prospect of a Muslim tenant. Imagine a teacher behaving such a prejudice nature.
On that day, I was accompanying a guy who was a Christian; and I did not let down my unknown Muslim brother.
Me, a Hindu along with a Christian took a decision in the virtual presence of the Muslim brother to boycott the lady teacher; we rejected that flat. I am proud for the decision.
Jai Hind."
The thing is that we have to accept this. I am proud that we majority don't behave the way others behave with their minorities in all most all other country on this erath. But, still we have to see that such discrimination is condemned and condemned by the majority in public. We can not see our brothers shamed for the religion they believe in. Please don't treat this as a one off incident. Treat this as a serious one and face the problem head on.
"Watched a show on NDTV by Barkha, which took up an issue that is very close to my heart.....
Is India a secular country? Have we been able to establish a prejudice free society in that last 65 years? Have we been matured enough to respect differences?
To my utter dismay, we are not. Where a Muslim is asked to wear its patriotism on the chest can not be secular. Bu I am optimistic that I will try my best to inculcate the spirit of secularism to each and all around me till my last breath.
I remember an incident which I witnessed in Pune while I went on a hunting for a rented home. I met the lady owner of the flat who happens to be a teacher, showed us the flat. When she thought we are ready to take that flat...she pushed us for advance and she was little desperate...I asked her the reason. She spilled the bean....
A Muslim couple visited her and they were ready to take possession. She was not comfortable with the prospect of a Muslim tenant. Imagine a teacher behaving such a prejudice nature.
On that day, I was accompanying a guy who was a Christian; and I did not let down my unknown Muslim brother.
Me, a Hindu along with a Christian took a decision in the virtual presence of the Muslim brother to boycott the lady teacher; we rejected that flat. I am proud for the decision.
Jai Hind."
The thing is that we have to accept this. I am proud that we majority don't behave the way others behave with their minorities in all most all other country on this erath. But, still we have to see that such discrimination is condemned and condemned by the majority in public. We can not see our brothers shamed for the religion they believe in. Please don't treat this as a one off incident. Treat this as a serious one and face the problem head on.