Honest talk

There are no double standards, I shamefully acknowledge them. We have issues with racism, the caste system stands as a supreme example. Today, unlike America or Britain. India's lesser economic power has been the reason the rest of the world hasn't paid too much attention to this issue. But as her economic power grows, there will be more fingers that point against her.
The task that liberated Indians like myself, Utham, Chirag.... have on our hands is to help undo these social injustices.

Suneel

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From: Christopher,TM (pgt)
Sent: Tue 5/13/2008 3:33 PM
To: Pillai,SS (pgt)
Subject: RE: The African connection


This is something difficult for us to understand. For instance, it is well known that African students in Mumbai have been discriminated against: they are not invited to people's homes and have to face all kinds of remarks. How do you explain these double standards?

So, I was right about the racism endemic within Indian society!



-----Original Message-----
From: Pillai,SS (pgt)
Sent: Tue 13/05/2008 15:12
To: Christopher,TM (pgt)
Cc: Reddy,SU (pgt)
Subject: The African connection

African community in India
When we think of African diasporas, we think of the Americas and the horrors of the slave trade, of African experiences of disruption and displacement. To most people it comes as a surprise that India should have been a slave-importing country as well. And yet, medieval Indian history abounds with references to Ethiopian or Abyssinian slaves serving at royal courts or in the armies of imperial/local rulers. But African presences in India testify not only to past systems of feudal power and warfare, but also to the subcontinent's place in a larger Indian Ocean world. This world was ruled by maritime and trading connections extending to East Africa as much as to Arabia, the Persian Gulf and South-East Asia. African seamen, well known for their maritime skills, served not only on the ships of traders from India, the Swahili coast and Arabia, but also on those of Portuguese, British and other European colonial trading companies........................


http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2218/stories/20050909002609100.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1035389.stm

Suneel

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