” I think Indians whine too much.”

Well the post talks about people of Sub continental origin whining about them not being represented. I dont understand what Indians have to with it. Indians do whine but not on these stuff. If Indian origin folks in S-Africa / West Indies start whining about some stuff its not necessarily Indians whining.

It is both a reaction and not a reaction. There’s a saying that every fox is a lion in its own den. The issues of northeast folks in the major Indian metros is highlighted because it is a numbers game. There is an economic and opportunity disparity between the northeast and mainland. So there are more folks from Mizoram earning their bread in Gujarat than vice versa.

There are still some legacy mainland populations in the northeastern states that are legacy of colonial times, like the Punjabi Sikhs that were recently on the end of violence from the locals of Meghalaya.

https://indianexpress.com/article/north-east-india/meghalaya/shillong-violence-meghalaya-khasi-punjabi-clash-conrad-sangma-police-curfew-5202012/

At the end of the day, until the northeast develops, the only prejudice you’ll see from the northeast is directed at tourists. The seriousness of things always increase when the recipient of the hostility isn’t a tourist but rather a long term settled economic migrant. A good amount of the ire in Assam against the Bangladeshis is racially derived.

There has been increasing assimilation and migration of late. Till even a decade back, in a lot of parts of India, the most you’d come across a north-easterner would be a Nepali watchman.

But they’ve started entering other industries (especially hospitality) now. There are also a significant number of them in public universities thanks to tribal quotas. Not to mention sports and music. Shillong is the centre of Indian blues music.

So yeah, things are getting quite better.

On Shillong blues, here’s a song you might enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIvXtm8GWMY

i pretty much agree with this. the indian racism toward northeast indians is well known

Yes, this is true. You definitely notice this in places like Delhi.

Perhaps as a reaction to this, northeasterners sometimes also express racist attitudes towards other Indians who visit their states. My friends got a taste of this in Sikkim a couple of decades ago; they were called “kaale log” (black people) and were the target of lewd jokes.

LOL. Or his book on “postmodernism.”

I await AnAn’s book on the souls of white folks.

Fine, but since Roy has gone to the trouble of publishing a book on the topic, I think it makes sense to just provide a reference to that.

I’m not personally very invested in this topic and only responded because Anan was shocked that “young Caucasians” would call Gandhi racist. My limited point was that based on his own actions and words, it is clear that he was racist, at least according to 21st century criteria.

I am not angry at all. I don’t know what gave you that impression. I am simply pointing out that in this particular discussion, Islam is not germane. People are free to discuss it in contexts where it actually makes sense. I personally am a very secular person and I find discussion of the faith I was born into to not be very intellectually interesting. But that is only my preference. I do feel that people have a tendency to bring Islam up unnecessarily on this forum (and usually to attack it) but I am capable of ignoring bigoted comments.

As for telling me to stop commenting, I will continue to comment as long as I feel that it is worth my time. It is no one’s place to tell me to shut up. I’m usually OK with any communication as long as it is not condescending or ignorant.

Let’s end this discussion here.