2010...here comes the new year shaped with greetings, celebrations, new hopes, lots of excitement and mourning!
Each year is marked with developments in science and technology. New scientific discoveries and inventions are being made time and again. We talk about Artificial intelligence, Meta physics, Nano technologies etc... and work harder to take our glorious achievements to a new horizon. But there are yet other issues we need to think about. Racism being one of them.
Since the beginning of 18th century men have been engaged in battles against Racism. People have endured pain, sufferings, rejection, hardships and even death to fight against racism. Today, even in this era Racism has a strong existence. The racism of today is of a subtler, more dangerous form than its earlier roots.
On the very third day of the year an Indian student was stabbed to death in Australia, a sequel of the several previous racial attacks on the Indians in Oz. The victim was not given immediate medical help for two hours on account of which he died. Indian students have faced a lot of racial discrimination in Australia for a very long time. Despite repeated assurances by our Prime Minister and Foreign Minister that such incidence would not take place in future, the problem persists. The Australian government takes no serious action against these crimes. First such incidence took place on May 24th, 2009 in Melbourne. Since then, spate of attacks have left the Indian students on edge in Australia.
Isn’t this a heinous crime? How can discrimination on skin colour become more important than Humanity?
Deep article on a very potent topic. Cool.
ReplyDeleteNice one...Even I'd given a thought to it once upon a time. Good that you've written it:)
ReplyDelete'The racism of today is of a subtler, more dangerous form than its earlier roots' very true!
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