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The Devil In The Yellow-Black Carrier

I am sure each of us who need to use the auto rickshaws regularly or once in a while or should I say, have had the 'opportunity and privilege' to sit in an auto rickshaw in Bangalore would have had a brush with the devil driving it.

I myself and many of my acquaintances have had numerous such bad experiences. I am narrating a few here:

Recently one of my friends had been to nearby restaurant on Jeevan Beema Nagar main road and was walking back home as he stayed in LIC Colony there. He was walking on the foot-path and there were some construction material put there, so he had just stepped down the foot-path and an auto-rickshaw came and hit him very hard from his back. He was hit so badly that he rolled over from one side of the road to another and could not get up. So people around helped to to get up. His wrist had got fractured.

On getting up he realized that after hitting him, the auto-rickshaw has overturned when its wheen had come over the edge of the foot-path. Much to his surprise, he finds the driver (the devil) who is fully drunk come up to him and demanding money from my friend for repairing his auto. Just then a local guy intervenes and shouts at the driver saying he had seen through the incident and there is not reason why my friend should pay money to the driver and threatens to call the J B Nagar police. To this the driver says that he knows everyone there and that guy can very well call the police. Then the driver starts calling up his association people so that they can come and beat up the guy.

To this, one of the elderly gentlemen standing and watching the driver told my friend that the driver is calling his association people to beat up the guy so before they arrive he must escape, so that he does not indulge in any problem as those people are mostly rowdies. To this my friend already having fractured his wrist had no other go but to leave the place.

Similar incident have happened to me and my wife where in an auto driver stops the auto at 9 PM near Vishweshwaraiah college and says that he wants extra money to take us to the destination and will not go on meter basis as his meter has broken down all of a sudden. When I said that I will get down from the auto and pay him whatever had come in the meter by that time, he shouted and verbally abused me. Not knowing how to handle the situation and what to do, we finally took another auto (which fortunately happened to pass by) and returned home helpless.

There have been other incident with colleagues and other acquaintances of mine where in once when the friend of my colleague argued with the auto driver for unexpectedly asking more money on reaching the destination for no reason, the auto driver flicked out a knife and stabbed the person on the thigh. There also have been an incident when these rogues do not spare even the ladies or the elders. Once an acquaintance of mine (a lady) was asked for more money than what the meter showed on reaching the destination. So she denied paying the extra amount to the driver. So for that reason as she was getting down from the auto-rickshaw, the driver puposely started speeding and she fell down from the auto-rickshaw and the rear wheel some how ran over her feet and she fractured it.

Having narrated a few of these incidents I will now put an end to the narration here because already we know now, to what extent these rogues, rowdies, devils or driver whatever you call them can go.

But the point of concern here is that, have we all (much larger number of people than the auto-drivers) succumbed to the atrocities and abominableness of these rogues who have supposedly gained for themlesves the name of 'auto-driver' in Bangalore?

Have we got nothing to do at all but just sit quiet and watch these incidents happen to us over and over again?

Would it not be great if all come together and find out ways to tackle the situation? For example we can together form a group and then find out ways of how to react and whom to approach and what to do to next when we face such a situation. If anyone of us has some acquaintainces with some higher officials in the Traffic Police Dept or other regulatory bodies we can approach them as well.

Many of us may think that why to get into all this. But imagine where we are heading... aren't we heading for a Bangalore where every decision of ours will be under the infuence of rogues in some form or the other. Is it bad to expect that these auto-drivers demand what is just and also they behave properly with us? Don't we have any social responsibility for the society we live in? What kind of society we are leaving behind us for the generations to come?

Together we can make a difference....

To give all, a few leads in this direction, please visit the following website:

http://www.saferindia.com/

Beat Inflation - Worth Understanding

I came across this lovely but simple example to show how we ourselves add to the inflation and how we can control it told by Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah. It is really very simple yet interesting and definitely worth a read.

Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah told:

"If you keep buying the things which you really don't need....May be the people who really need won't get that"

Think about the below logic. Apply this for all goods which you buy.

A logic that should work
A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the Kirana store he pays Rs 12 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time.

One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to Rs 16.

The next time he buys groceries, eggs are Rs 22 a dozen.

When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "The price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly."

This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. He checked around for a better price and all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business. The huge egg farms sell 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to the grocery stores. And on and on and on.

As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there. He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.

A week before Diwali the price of eggs shot up to Rs 40 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "Cakes and baking for the holiday."

The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc. happen.

This pattern continues until the price of eggs is Rs 60 a dozen. The man says, "There must be something we can do about the price of eggs."

He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. But it didn't work because everyone needed eggs.

Finally, the man suggested that people should buy only what they needed. He ate two eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying two or three eggs a day.

The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs.

Maybe wouldn't need any all week.

The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks.

At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs. To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price.

The distributor said, "I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% eggs even if they were free." The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the price of the eggs if the store would start buying again.

The grocery store owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buying two or three eggs at a time. Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers would start buying by the dozen again."

The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers but the egg farmers liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, those chickens just kept on laying. Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their eggs. But only a few paisa.

The customers still bought two or three eggs at a time. They said, "When the price of eggs comes down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."

Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers.

The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for. Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.

And those chickens kept on laying.

Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn't sell. The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price.

And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.

Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.

What if everyone only bought Rs 200 worth of petrol each time they pulled to the pump? The dealer's tanks would stay semi-full all the time. The dealers wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the huge tanks. The tank farms wouldn't have room for the petrol coming from the refining plants. And the refining plants wouldn't have room for the oil being off loaded from the huge tankers coming from the oil fiends.

Just Rs 200 each time you buy gas. Don't fill up the tank of your car. You may have to stop for gas twice a week, but the price should come down.
Think about it.

Also, don't buy anything else at the fuel station; don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come down..."

Think of this concept for a while.

Save The Olive Ridleys Off Orissa Coast

All of us know that Olive Ridleys are endangered species on this earth. Due to the human intrusion into every nook and corner of the environment and the subsequent ecological imbalance created by them due to pollution etc, many species on the earth are becoming extinct. The Olive Ridleys are one such species and they are dying in large numbers every year on the coasts of Orissa. There is a port at a place called Dhamra belonging to the Tatas which is contributing a lot to the death of these endangered species. Let us all join hands and ask Mr. Ratan Tata to stop the destructive port in Dhamra and save the Olive Ridley Turtles. Let us do it via 'Gandhigiri'. There is an organization called 'Greenpeace' which is actively working for this cause. You can just ask 'Greenpeace' to deliver a rose on your behalf along with a 'Thanks in Advance' note to Mr Ratan Tata so that he can get a feel of the surging public pressure. It will take more that one rose to move him. So why don't you too send one by clicking on the link below: http://www.greenpeace.org/india/turtles/gandhigiri-is-back-in-fashion-2

Why Save the turtles?

Consider this… Olive Ridley turtles rely on an inexplicable, in-built navigation system that guides them, when it’s time for them to reproduce, back to the precise coast on which they were born.

Now consider something else… The proposed Tata port at Dhamra threatens a nesting site that is amongst the last honeymoon suites for the remaining Olive Ridleys, a highly-endangered species that swims all the way here from places as far away as Australia and the Philippines.

When you consider these two facts together, it seems only logical that Tata would reconsider its decision to build the port at Dhamra, and build it in an area that’s less ecologically sensitive. It seems especially logical when it’s Tata we’re talking about.

After all, Tata has grown from a national giant into an international player, while constantly stating its commitment to the principles of social upliftment, environmental justice and sustainable development. The Tata brand is ubiquitous, present in hundreds of products that have genuinely improved the lives of generations of Indians; from the Tata salt that flavours our daily bread, the Tata BP solar geyser that warms our winter baths, the Tata Telecom that manages our communications, to the Tata cars that ‘drive a billion dreams.’

And yet, in Orissa, we’re witnessing a different side to the same Tata. A Tata that shuts its ears to reason. A Tata that looks the other way when confronted with evidence. A Tata that cares nothing for the community, and even less for nature.

The port Tata is proposing to build in Dhamra will directly affect the Olive Ridley turtles. With 150,000 to 350,000 Olive Ridley turtles nesting in the vicinity, the average number of hatchlings is believed to range from 15 million to 35 million.

When confronted by Greenpeace Tata promised concerned citizens that it would abandon the port ‘if evidence of turtle presence and the ecological significance of the area were ever unearthed.’

The evidence was submitted , but this promise wasn’t kept. The perfunctory EIA carried out in this area isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Another nesting season has passed us by, with turtle mortality from mechanized fishing agonizingly high. Coming in addition to this annual death toll, the Tata port could be the final nail in the turtle’s coffin, ensuring that this area is never safe for turtles again.

Will this willful destruction be the legacy that Tata leaves behind in Orissa?

Not if you can help it. To write directly to Ratan Tata and ask him to change his mind, simply sign the letter on the right.

DHAMRA PORT PROJECT BACKGROUNDER

Orissa is probably the most significant habitat worldwide for the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle, an endangered species and afforded Schedule I status in India, on par with the tiger. The nesting beaches at Gahirmatha in Orissa are among the world’s largest – and last – mass nesting grounds for the species.

The upcoming Dhamra port in Orissa’s Bhadrakh district is a 50:50 JV between Larsen & Toubro and TATA Steel. It is located less than 5 km. from the Bhitarkanika Sanctuary (a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance) and less than 15 km. from the mass nesting beaches of the Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary.

The Dhamra port has a long and controversial history.

• The area of the present port site was originally notified for inclusion in the Bhitarkanika National Park in October 1988.
• In June 1997, the Orissa state government officially instructed that the Dhamra area be excluded from the proposed Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary.
• In December 1997, a fresh draft notification was issued for Bhitarkanika National Park, which excluded the port area.
• The Environment Impact Assessment study was undertaken by Kirloskar Consultants in 1997, with L&T and Singapore based International Seaports Ltd as the major stakeholders in the project.
• In April 1998, the Orissa government asked the MoST to clear the port.
• Five months later, the Orissa state government issued the final notification for the 145 sq. km. Bhitarkanika National Park, with the proposed port site now excluded from the park boundaries.
• In January 2000, the MoST granted environmental clearance to the port.
• In March 2000, the International Sea Turtle Symposium expressed its concern about the port being built so close to a major turtle nesting and feeding ground.
• In 2001, a study was conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India, wherein 4 turtles were fitted with satellite transmitters. Of these, one was reported in the waters off the Dhamra Port. To date, this is the only telemetry study which has been carried out on the turtles in coastal Orissa. The results of a new study, which is underway, are yet to be made public.
• In 2000, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) upheld the port’s clearance, dismissing a petition filed by the Orissa Beach Protection Council which erroneously stated that the port was on a nesting ground. The NEAA only looked at the fact that the site was not a nesting ground, and did not consider any other issues, such as turtle presence offshore, impacts on Gahirmatha and Bhitarkanika and on the ecology of the port site itself, as these issues were not raised by the petition.
• In February 2004, Tata Steel expressed interest in a joint venture with L&T.
• Shortly after, several NGOs and turtle researchers had a series of meetings with Tata Steel expressing their concern.
• In a report in July 2004, the Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee recommended, “The present site (Dhamra) will seriously impact Gahirmatha’s nesting turtles and could lead to the beach being abandoned by the marine creatures. It is therefore necessary that an alternative site is located for this port.”
• In October 2004 Tata Steel and L&T signed an agreement for construction of Dhamra port.
• At a meeting at the BNHS on 21st April, 2005, Tata Steel agreed to a study to assess turtle presence in the area of the port site, to be conducted under the aegis of the Bombay Natural History Society, incidentally an IUCN member. BNHS asked that Tata Steel commit to keeping the project’s construction on hold pending completion of the study and release of the results, to avoid a ‘fait accompli’ situation, and interference with the study results. Tata Steel agreed to ‘no project work on the seaward side’ till March 2006. This was not acceptable and so BNHS refused to undertake the study in November 2005, citing commencement of other aspects of the port work as the reason.
• In December 2006, an IUCN team made a preparatory scoping visit to Dhamra and later, in 2007, Dhamra Port Company Limited announced the signing of a formal deal with the IUCN to undertake preparation of a mitigation plan and design environmental standards for the project.

Lack of a comprehensive Environment Impact Analysis
No comprehensive Environment Impact Analysis has ever been conducted for the project. There are serious and acknowledged flaws in the environment impact analysis conducted for the port in 1997. The main flaws relate to poor baseline ecological data, a complete omission of the impacts on turtles, impacts of noise and chemical pollution and a poor hazard analysis and emergency plan. Further, the EIA, done in 1997, considers a port with significantly different specifications from the project currently being built. For instance, the 1997 EIA considered the port site on Kanika Sands, whereas the site is now on the mainland. The initial proposed capacity was 20 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) where as the proposed capacity is now 83 mtpa. The original project was to handle bulk carriers up to 120,000 deadweight tons (dwt); the revised plan proposes handling ships up to 180,000 dwt.

Visit http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/reports/critique-of-the-environmental for more information.

Independent biodiversity assessment
In 2007, Greenpeace commissioned a rapid biodiversity assessment of the Dhamra port site and its surrounding areas. The survey threw up several interesting findings:
The presence of horseshoe crabs which use the area as a nesting ground in large numbers.
The presence of rare species of snakes, including one Fordonia leucobalia that was recorded in Orissa for the first time.
The presence of rare species of amphibians, including the Crab-eating frog F. cancrivora that has never before been recorded in mainland India
Over 2,000 turtle carcasses were recorded on and near the port site, probably victims of mechanised fishing in offshore waters. However, this shows the presence of turtles in the waters off the port site, contrary to port officials earlier claims.

The full report is available at http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/reports/greenpeace-biodiversity

This report was made public through the media, in a conference jointly addressed by Dr. S.K.Dutta, the principal investigator from the North Orissa University and Greenpeace Indian representatives.

Three weeks after the joint release of the assessment by Dr. S.K. Dutta and Greenpeace, the North Orissa University, reportedly under pressure from the state government and DPCL, alleged that Greenpeace had tampered with the report. However, the findings even as per the University are exactly the same as the report released by Dr. Dutta. For a detailed rebuttal of the allegations against Greenpeace, refer to http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/reports/email-exchange-on-report/summary-of-greenpeace-response and http://www.greenpeace.org/india/press/reports/link which shows the link between TATA and the allegations leveled at Greenpeace.

TATA has yet to respond to the significant findings of the assessment.

TATA and the Precautionary Principle
Tata Steel is a member of the UN’s Global Compact and as such professes to abide by the Precautionary Principle, which according to the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992, Preamble is explained as: “[W]here there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat.”
As a member of the Global Compact, and the representative of India in its board, Tata Steel is honour bound to adopt the precautionary approach to environmental challenges (Principle 7 of the Compact) “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”

Further, the onus of providing evidence of no threat is always on the proponent and beneficiary of an activity. However, not only have the TATAs not bothered to get an independent, impartial and comprehensive assessment of environmental impacts done, they are now proceeding with construction.

JRD Tata’s words in his foreword to The Creation of Wealth in 1992 are pertinent here:
“I believe that the social responsibilities of our industrial enterprises should now extend, even beyond serving people, to the environment. This need is now fairly well recognized but there is still considerable scope for most industrial ventures to extend their support not only to human beings but also to the land, to the forests, to the waters and to the creatures that inhabit them. I hope that such need will be increasingly recognized by all industries and their managements because of the neglect from which they have suffered for so long and the physical damage that the growth of industry has inflicted, and still inflicts on them.”

How does TATA reconcile its continued destruction of habitat in Dhamra with the Precautionary Principle and indeed with JRD’s own words?

Mitigation vs Precaution
The port authorities have engaged the IUCN to prepare a mitigation plan and are claiming this as proof that they are doing everything possible to protect turtles. However, the IUCN itself is of the opinion that “no port” in that area would be the best option. In the recent newsletter of the Marine Turtle Specialist Group it says, “It is IUCN's viewpoint that no port would be a great option, but if the port is to be developed, IUCN would much rather it be developed while taking on board the very best mitigation measures…..” http://www.seaturtle.org/mtn/PDF/MTN118.pdf

Further, in the absence of a comprehensive EIA and proper baseline ecological data, any mitigation plan is likely to be inadequate at best. Further, the impacts of ancillary development that will accompany construction of such a major port have not and can not be taken into account or mitigated against. For example, the Paradeep port, built in the 1960s has led to the establishment of an entire township, with fertilizer factories and other industries, some of them very polluting. While turtles are still seen in offshore waters not far from Paradeep, there is no nesting that occurs anywhere close to Paradeep.

Opposition to Dhamra
As of now, several constituencies have expressed their concerns on the Dhamra Port Project, including

• The National Fishworkers Forum (the apex body for over a million traditional fishworkers in India) and the Orissa Traditional Fishworkers Union (representing the interests of over 100,000 traditional fishermen in the state) have stated their public opposition to the port. Please refer to http://www.mangroveactionproject.org/news/action-alerts/stop-port-construction-save-ridley-sea-turtles-sept-oct-2007/ for the OTFWU’s expression on this project.
• Over 100 leading scientists, including over 25 members of the IUCN’s Marine Turtle Specialist Group have raised their concerns on this project and have asked for the relocation of the port. Please refer to http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1541/t/4058/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=835 for further details on this.
• Several national and local environmental and conservation organizations, have at various points of time, publicly stated their concerns and opposition to this project. These include Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Kalpavriksh, Wildlife Protection Society of India and the Bombay Natural History Society, besides GP India

Now, through an online Greenpeace campaign, over 85,000 concerned individuals have added their voice of support, calling for the port to be relocated. www.greenpeace.org/turtles

Conclusion
In conclusion, the TATA performance on this issue, right from its involvement in 2004 till date, does not befit an entity that professes to follow high environmental and social standards. If the TATA group is genuine about its commitment to the environment, it needs to immediately halt construction at Dhamra and assess alternative, less destructive options to the port.

The woe continued for few more days....

I am writing this blog quite some days after the actual incident happened. This is in continuation of the previous post on racism in Bangalore.
A few days after the same incident, I return home from office at 6.30 PM in the evening that a whole lot of people have gathered in that area and the road is being laid again in concrete (although a patch up would have lasted sufficiently long) and as expected there is no place to place your feet on to reach my house from where it connects to the main road. I was standing still and wondering how insane people can be. Then one person (don't know who was it, could be some person owning a house in that lane), walks up to me and says because of all 'north indians' staying in the locality this mess has happened and we are laying this road again. So you cannot go to your house today... (this was much to my surprise as I had not talked to anyone at all). Then another guy walks up to me and says sarcastically you have to stay on the roads today....
It seems I have to take permission from these people to even go to my house....
Even more shocking was that these people standing over there had brought in a police person in civil clothes (as I made out from his way of talking and his police helmet) to look though the whole process (don't know why) and that guy comes to me and just blurts out to me in Hindi that all north indians are dogs... .
This coming from a policemen was heart rendering at that time but today when I have already read through the great deed of a police person in Audugodi police station (this locality also falls under the same PS) using filthy language to a women for simply lodging a complaint and also seeking sexual favour for doing so, doesn't leave much of the surprise element in it when I look back at the incident that happened to me....

I really wonder that some day we will go back to the dark ages because of some mindless people like this and some rogues in the system who are supposedly called "Policemen".

Racism continues to haunt people in the IT capital.

Hi,

I am a native of Orissa. I work for an MNC here in Bangalore and have been staying in Bangalore for the past 5 years or so.
Time and again I have come across racism against people who hail from states other than Karnataka, here is Bangalore. I thought of being more vocal about these issues and reaching out to broader mass of people. Hope I will able to achieve this with the help of others who think like me and vow to make Bangalore a nice and peaceful place to live in as it was earlier. I request you to put forward my views in whatever way to more people in Bangalore as well as India.

I am greatly perturbed by the fact that when the number of educated people is so high in Bangalore, how can one be faced with racism time and again in day-to-day life. This negative vibe is flowing dense in the local Kannadiga community in Bangalore. It is not that all those people think that way. But some people are really pursuing it hard to spread racism in Bangalore, dont know for what. Probably they do not realise there are bigger enemies to defeat.

Yesterday night, BBMP people poured concrete mixture on the road in front of my house in Ayappa Garden, Audugodi leaving no space for the people residing in that lane to commute. This can be seen from the attached photo.

My wife had to leave for office at 6.30 AM and when she stepped out of the gate of my house she found that the mixture was still not dried up completely. But as there was no other resort, she had to carefully step into the harder/dried surfaces to make her way.

But all of a sudden a father and son duo came out of their house and very very rudely urged my wife to step on the 4 inch wide broken base of the compound wall of multiple houses to make her way to the main road (about 150 metres) by clinging to the compound wall. (I was watching all these from my balcony). To this my wife replied that being a lady and also because she was holding bag and tiffin box in her hand, she could not cling to the wall and step on the non-contiguous, uneven and broken 4 inch wide base of the compound wall for so much distance and she would fall otherwise.

To this, both the father and son went out to my wife as if to hit her and very very rudely verbally abused her as if she was some animal. I could not bear this and then intervened into the matter saying to both the people that being a lady she cannot do that and what if she falls down. To this the father and son duo started to abusing me in English and then when I expressed that it is not possible for my wife to do what they are asking, they abused me again and also kept saying in English "Speak in Kannada, speak in Kannada. we wont let you stay here" etc.

I simply fail to understand who are they to abuse my wife for tackling with some menace created by BBMP in her own way. And from where this "Kannada' thing come into picture. People lack the simple humanitarian thoughts and only inviting those days where people used to fight with each other over petty issues and some third person used to exploit the situation.

There have been other instances like this also when the police people inside the police station have refused point blank to my friend who had met with an accident on Hosur Road on her way back from office that they would not lodge an FIR unless she speaks in Kannada and have gone to extent of provoking the other party in the accident to man-handle her husband.

It is deed of some sick minded people who just live is their own closet without bothering or doing something for the bigger issues facing the nation. They are spreading the negative under-current in Bangalore against people who are non-kannadigas for no reason and are forgetting that India is a democratic and secular country.

This is very very wrong both from the humane aspect as well as constitutionally. It is high time that we rise above these petty issues of spreading racism for no good and fight together for other greater causes.