Tuesday, May 20, 2008

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".