Sunday, June 28, 2009

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

NORTH EAST BOY ATTACK IN NATIONAL CAPITAL

While the Indians boldly criticized the Australians, the same racial discrimination continues in India. Racial attacked to North East communities erupt again in the heart of Delhi city.
Recently, a north-east girl of Delhi University was molested by her teacher in Mukherjee Nagar while Helena, her brother and her cousin were abused by her landlady in Naraina village.

Now comes….A 23-year-old boy of Manipur working in private restaurant was attacked inside a maruti car by three unidentified men in Najafgarth of south-west Delhi on Saturday mid-night. The boy was beaten into black and blue. He was attempted to kill but miraculously escaped from the jaws of death.
The incident happened at 1200 hrs on June 13, 2009 when the boy boarded a maruti car from his office, ‘Punjab Foot Point A.C. Family Restaurant’ at Najafgarth towards his home, Jaroda Kalan.

Unexpectedly, the boy was suddenly questioned by those three men who were inside the car. One of them asked the boy, “Are you Nepali?” and teased him with racial remarks. Then another guy asked him whether he carry any gadgets like mobile phones or some thing else. The boy replied them with humbly. Then those guys began laughing at him with all lewd comments.
Soon after that, the driver speed-up the car faster. The boy was frightened and he was helpless inside the moving car. The boy tried to go out of the vehicle. Then three man began attacking him. “They are punching me, kicking me, slapping and grasping me” said the boy in misery. The boy pleaded for their mercy, but his prayer was unheard all the way through. The car doors and windows were closed. He could not move nor defense himself. His nose was severely bleeding with a sharp cut on his eyebrows and bruise marks on his body.The notorious guys took away his mobile handset, money purse and every thing he had on that fateful night.Fortunately, the boy kick opened one of the side door. Through this, he jumped out immediately. According to the helpless boy, “he was continuously beaten for more than half an hour inside the moving car”.Only few minutes passed, those guys came back in a group of 20-30 men in one truck to kill the north east boy.Seeing a group of man repeatedly shouting, “Catch him…, Beat Him…, Kill Him…”, the boy ran for his life, though he could not walk properly after his wounds. The boy was chased along the road to Jaroda Kalan. At last he reached the gate of CRPF and entered therein.The miscreants left the spot quickly. The registered number of the vehicles is not yet identified.The boy belongs to Gelbung village of Sadar hills in Manipur. Just two months passed, he has been in Delhi. At present, he is staying with his brother, a CRPF in CRPF Camp at Jaroda Kalan.No wonders the racial attacks on the north-east people is increasing day by day.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

‘After 17 years of living here, I am made to feel like an outsider’

There is anger in India, justifiably, at the series of apparently racist attacks on Indian students in Australia.
But look around you — our fellow citizens and foreign visitors are subjected to similar prejudices, and worse, in our everyday lives, even right here in the national capital.
In two years, this city is set to hold the Commonwealth Games, the world's second largest sporting event — the most globalised version of sport ever in this country.
But at its core, there is nothing cosmopolitan, nothing global about New Delhi.
This city of 15 million remains a city of primitive prejudices and attitudes where young women cannot walk alone on the roads or travel on the Metro after dark and people from the Northeast and Kashmir cannot rent homes.
More than half a million pour into the capital every year, seeking a new life and a new destiny. But thousands face the stigma of being an “outsider” every day, and have their very Indianness routinely questioned in India’s capital. whether it is at the shopping mall or at the workplace, renting out apartments or at the college canteen.
In a series of stories beginning today, we lay bare this side of the city — and also seek to break the myths and stereotypes that hold back people from renting out an apartment to a woman from Imphal or Baramulla.