This was one of my tweets on hearing about victory of Barack Obama for a second term as President of USA-
“Racist” #USA elected a black as their President for second time When will ‘casteless’ and ‘secular’ India elect a Dalit or a Muslim as it’s PM?
Many a time our blood boil thinking about discrimination in foreign societies. But we fail to realize what is happening around us.
Several years ago, in late 1980s, I happened to meet a White South African. I started talking about Apartheid and could realize immediately that he was uncomfortable discussing that.I began to push him hard to a corner saying how can you say you are civilized…..
Suddenly he retorted. “For centuries your caste system made a quarter of your citizens untouchable and the discrimination is continuing. So how can you question me?”
I was speechless.
Trying to be rational 