The huge North-South divide

In  Itawah  a net -cafe owner today denied me entry into his cafe,  just because of  my Dhoti and Bhasma.A teashop owner refused to serve me tea.

Most  North Indians think racism exists only in the West and see themselves as victims. It's  the time to change their  own attitudes towards people from the country's South. When people from South India visit North Indian states, they are teased with words like “ Madrasi,Mallu” and “Kaalu.”.Most of the North Indians ,I have seen are fearless, aggressive, Hindi chauvinistic, have an attitude problem and don't respect the language & culture of a South Indian.The south Indians has long become accustomed to the northern discrimination like this .We pride ourselves about India's 'unity in diversity' but in much of the prejudice directed against South Indians is due to  their skin colour.Today I realized that fifty years after the creation of linguistic states, the South is far more integrated with the rest of the country than the  other way around.

 

 

Post by Manoj Kurup.

 

There’s a huge North-South divide too. Yet, in pre-colonial times, India was a haven for persecuted people. We gave refuge to Jewish people, Parsis from Persia, Armenians and later Chinese who ran away from the Revolution, and Tibetans who fled the Chinese. These people kept their distinct, separate identities but they prospered and loved India.
There’s another side to us though. As migration takes place, across state borders within India, a kind of xenophobia begins. In Mumbai in the 1960s, Maharashtrians were incited by Enoch Powell- like politicians to drive out south Indians, Madrasis, they called them, (somewhat similar to calling people Pakis in the UK), who were stealing their jobs, claimed the rabble rousers.
- See more at: http://newint.org/blog/majority/2011/06/03/racism-xenophobia-india-migrants/#sthash.JUEHNDD7.dpuf

here’s a huge North-South divide too. Yet, in pre-colonial times, India was a haven for persecuted people. We gave refuge to Jewish people, Parsis from Persia, Armenians and later Chinese who ran away from the Revolution, and Tibetans who fled the Chinese. These people kept their distinct, separate identities but they prospered and loved India.
There’s another side to us though. As migration takes place, across state borders within India, a kind of xenophobia begins. In Mumbai in the 1960s, Maharashtrians were incited by Enoch Powell- like politicians to drive out south Indians, Madrasis, they called them, (somewhat similar to calling people Pakis in the UK), who were stealing their jobs, claimed the rabble rousers.
- See more at: http://newint.org/blog/majority/2011/06/03/racism-xenophobia-india-migrants/#sthash.JUEHNDD7.dpuf

There’s a huge North-South divide too. Yet, in pre-colonial times, India was a haven for persecuted people. We gave refuge to Jewish people, Parsis from Persia, Armenians and later Chinese who ran away from the Revolution, and Tibetans who fled the Chinese. These people kept their distinct, separate identities but they prospered and loved India.
There’s another side to us though. As migration takes place, across state borders within India, a kind of xenophobia begins. In Mumbai in the 1960s, Maharashtrians were incited by Enoch Powell- like politicians to drive out south Indians, Madrasis, they called them, (somewhat similar to calling people Pakis in the UK), who were stealing their jobs, claimed the rabble rousers.
- See more at: http://newint.org/blog/majority/2011/06/03/racism-xenophobia-india-migrants/#sthash.JUEHNDD7.dpuf

There’s a huge North-South divide too. Yet, in pre-colonial times, India was a haven for persecuted people. We gave refuge to Jewish people, Parsis from Persia, Armenians and later Chinese who ran away from the Revolution, and Tibetans who fled the Chinese. These people kept their distinct, separate identities but they prospered and loved India.
There’s another side to us though. As migration takes place, across state borders within India, a kind of xenophobia begins. In Mumbai in the 1960s, Maharashtrians were incited by Enoch Powell- like politicians to drive out south Indians, Madrasis, they called them, (somewhat similar to calling people Pakis in the UK), who were stealing their jobs, claimed the rabble rousers.
- See more at: http://newint.org/blog/majority/2011/06/03/racism-xenophobia-india-migrants/#sthash.JUEHNDD7.dpuf