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Excuse me! Am I an Indian?
rediff.com | Chitra Ahanthem | April 02, 2012 10:53 IST
I am a royally confused person right now. All my identification papers say I am an Indian but I am not too sure whether I am indeed an Indian national. It starts with the fact that I have facial features that are "un-Indian" and that my origins are from a region that people in the rest of the country are more likely to locate somewhere in the Orient.
Cut to March 2012, and Delhi police are on the look out for anyone with small eyes and snubbed noses, who are likely to be accosted or picked up. The collateral damage touched people from the north-eastern region, going by news reports in some national dailies. While social networking sites are already buzzing with sarcasm, anger and indignation, the interesting bit was that one national newspaper, while quoting a Manipuri, described the person as a "Manipuri national".
But there is more sense in taking up precautionary measures and I am going underground in Delhi by taking to the Delhi Metro with a vengeance just so I won't be picked up or hounded! And then I ask myself, "Am I Indian?"
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