Indians: neither White-enough, nor Black-enough

The world is dealing only in Black & White these days.

We have seen the treatment of Indians in the white world..be it in Australia or Europe. The colour was not in our side. Indians face all kind of discrimination in all walks of life. Having earned all kind of pride and honour at NASA, Silicon valley and all other places, Indians could not earn the due basic respect of being an Indian.

But the fate of Indians in the black world is also not any different. Contribution of people of Indian Origin in the war against apartheid in South Africa and other parts of world is recorded in history, but all this is not enough to get appropriate space in new character of governments in countries like South Africa.

After Nelson Mandela, people of Indian origin have deliberately been marginalised in all spheres of public life. You do not read as many names (familiar to Indians) in politics or bureaucracy, which used to be there in post-apartheid era of South Africa. People of Indian Origin are targeted as bad as whites.

We are not white enough to be respected by white world and not black enough to get sympathy from the world fighting for the respect of black world.

I think now this is the time for Indian to really do serious introspection and listen to the call of the time. We need to rise and come out of proud passive history..We need to let world know that Indians are Indians...neither dressed in white arrogance, nor lost in black excuse.

Let the Indian enterprising skill overpower the inherited culture of co-existence, harmony etc. for time being and show the world a face never seen before- the aggressive face of vibrant India. If we can invent chips for computing, we definitely know the skills to fight any aggression towards our Indianness.