If you browse Indian website’s in their comments section you’ll
know where I am coming from. I frequent Rediff.com and NDTV.com for my daily
India news feed, and occasionally if I pour into the “comments” on the news
article – the vitriol is unbelievable. The anger and shouting is higher
especially if it is a news article on a woman celebrity. Add Pakistan in the
mix and the poison never ends.
Today’s article on Sania Mirza breakdown on a TV show was
startling. The fact that she married a Pakistani, she is a muslim and a woman
takes the abuse to a new level. Everyone is angry and wants to rip her apart.
Same is the case with ESPNSTAR.com, the sports website that’s
mainly used by Indian. The Barclays Premiere League section is especially
amusing. These are a bunch of English football teams battling it out, but
Indians abusing other Indians who support other teams is nonsensical. So in the
news section team manager of Man Utd says something about the manager of
Arsenal; and in the comments a guy in Dombiwali pours venom on an Andhra guy.
The conversation then drifts into regional superiority or abusing each other’s
parents.
The same goes on in day to day lives - on road, in queues at
the movies, in hotels dealing with waiters to name a few scenarios. Courtesy has been
blown away in the wind and all we care about is venting on someone for our
inner peace. We were supposed to be superior / classy / intellectual human
beings. Just about when we became insane – beats me!
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