Ayyo rama racism

Before terming the attacks on Indians in Australia as 'racist', the Indian media should look at its own backyard

It is really funny to see Indian media calling the recent attacks on Indians in Australia as `racist'.

No doubt, such attacks are highly deplorable and should be contained, whatever justifications (such as recession) are raised as their provocation. The attacks may or may not have racial overtones.

But it is simple double standard when the media cry about racism while it has never cared a damn about the untouchability prevailing in a society and the discriminaton and cruelties meted out to a large section of people just because they are born into a particular section of the society: the so-called 'untouchables' or Dalits numbering around 165 million.

There's something terribly amiss in terming the Australian attacks 'racists' when we have wonderful people like Giriraj Kishore who says the life of a cow is more precious than that of a human being! The mainstream media, just like the collective society, have accustomed to accept the strange and inhuman caste heirarcy and oppression of a large section of people as a social order; conveniently accepting a system in which Dalit-bashing is ingrained inextricably; in which you can kill any 'untouchables' and get away with it; in which 'untouchable' women are paraded naked and raped for defying the 'social order'.