Nido Taniam, a teenager boy from north-east region, was mercilessly mobbed and lynched by shopkeepers in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar and then died in a Hospital. This brutal racist murder raises a question “Is India really a united nation?”
When we visit any state of our country, we feel ourselves outsiders. We treat people from other parts of the country like alien or outsiders. It means, we all are outsiders in different states of our own country. If people from UP and Bihar goes to Mumbai to make some money or get a job, Maharashtrians think that they are snatching their opportunities. They go to any extent to terrorize and repel them out of Maharashtra. There nationality dies. Nationality is alive only on few days of calendar like 15th August and 26th January.
When we meet someone from eastern part of our country we call them Nepali without any knowledge whether the person actually belongs to Nepal or not. That’s our level of thinking.
The preamble of Indian Constitution starts with WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA whereas acts like Nido’s murder and other racist crimes makes us THE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT STATES OF INDIA. Sadly, the police and mob present at the crime scene in Nido’s case do not provide any help or medical assistance to the boy. Are we really treated equally in every part of India? Or we are more equal than others in our states.
In fact, we are very selfish people when it comes to sharing or helping someone. We prefer to help our family rather than neighbour’s family. Above this, we like to help a person from our caste, religion, society, locality, city and state.
Pain is same for all but why we feel it only for the person who is closer. It will be very disappointing if we keep on putting Stateism above Nationalism. Nido was a victim of a very narrow-minded and racist mentality of some of his own country’s brothers.Unfortunately, our hearts are united only on issues like corruption, inflation and tension with Pakistan. We are scattered, up to a great extent on religious matters and state affairs.