On 22 July 2011 06:27, Rajan P. Parrikar <[email protected]> wrote: > Indians have no public manners, therefore a dress > code would provide a minimal filter. >
I guess such bias and stereotyping is similar to racism that people of our skin colour encounter elsewhere in the globe. Just last night, I was reading the chapter "Caste Away", in Rashmi Bansal's new book *I Have A Dream*. This is about Bindeshwar Pathak, the Bihari who struggled against adversity to find solutions to India's sanitation woes that are afforable, efficient and sustainable. Anyone who has spent the last two or three decades here would know the difference that Sulabh has done for the masses in urban India... though a lot more still needs to be done. It is easy to portray someone poorer than us as being dirty, as if due to some genetic deficiency. I suspect that as the talent pool of solution-seekers grows in India, merely cursing about the darkness could increasingly become a thing of the past. FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India http://fn.goa-india.org http://goa1556.goa-india.org
