Friday, 8 February 2008

Race or mother

Sometimes I have to admit that Indians are more liberal when it comes to dealing with race and caste , the latter which is sometimes passionately held and protected by its members. With so many castes/sub-castes and sub sects in India, its a miracle that we live as one country.A certain Australian cricketer  raises a hue and cry about being called a 'monkey'  which he claims is a racist abuse. Aren't we all descendants of that mammal family irrespective of colour?  The irony is that the Australians are pacified when they come to learn that he actually heard it wrong and the actual abuse was a common Hindi expletive  referring to his mother's ---- No, I am not putting blanks because I do not want to offend the readers of the blog by mentioning something profane.It is actually a literal translation. Fill the blanks yourself  Mr   'Abusee'. On of the creative expletives which gives a choice to the receiver of the abuse. Strangely the Australians were relieved that its only a reference to the cricketer's mother and not the entire race. So let there be peace. 

I hear on FM radio that the two protagonists in the incident will soon be  seen together in a television commercial  . Is it going to be an ad for Tata Indicom? Kajol would probably step in and ask Bhajji ,who is getting frustrated yelling the Hindi expletive at the Australian, to throw the existing connection  and get a Tata Indicom connection so that the person at the other can can clearly hear the abuse and be convinced its not racist.   

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