Indians - You Are Not Wanted !

INDIANS- YOU ARE NOT WANTED!

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a man with remarkable wit and charisma. He also has  an almost instinctive knowledge of what his audiences need to hear. He can capture them in a heartbeat. But as an Indian, I felt rather overlooked and not quite appreciated when Modi met Trump in June.

First of all, wasn’t he made to wait too long for the appointment during the time Trump spent fiddling with Twitter? Then I definitely feel the hotel could have been better. For a Prime Minister, there are more imposing places to put up in Washington. Then the much hyped handshake was a bit childish I thought. The hugs were more with Modi’s initiative than Trump’s His speech was proper and diplomatic but one could not help comparing it with the Obama-Modi speeches of not so long ago.

The long and short of it is, that Trump has nothing against Modi. He certainly respects him---if he respects anyone. He may even like our Prime Minister, But Trump dislikes anyone from our part of the world. He likes aesthetic things. I believe he has quite a collection of artefacts. He likes people from the western side of the world. He likes white skin. He likes blonde hair. He feels more at home with it. He wants to build up his vote banks with his own kind. That is the white variety. His attitude is now with sure footed agility, infiltrating the white masses—the white-collar worker, the daily wage earner, and yes the upper echelons. It is bound to. This is human nature we are talking about. Would Sonia Gandhi have made it to the top of the Congress pile if she were not the ‘great white queen’? We Indians are racists too—in our own sweet way. 

Ipsita Roy Chakraverti

I also find it very startling to see how Indians cling on to their so called western identities, no matter how much they are insulted, humiliated and finally killed. There have been so many hate crimes in the past few months but Indians choose to ignore them, thinking that they will not be next. They find excuses like ‘it’s a global market’, ‘we have a right to be here’, and take out protest marches, and the next day Trump’s regime again kicks out a few more Indians. They lose their jobs but are willing to subsist on dole. One NRI kept on saying, ‘this is my second home’. Trump does not agree at all.

So, what I’m left with thinking is that job or no job, Indians save your self-respect and come back. Or go somewhere else, if they’ll have you. But don’t hang around where you are not wanted. The whites shrink away when they see you. Your children are needled at school and isolated. I have heard it said by Indian friends visiting India---‘’Oh they stay in their own group and we stay in our’s.’’  Those are the saddest words I have ever heard. Why should Indians be treated like outcastes and lepers? Pick up your pride if any remains.