Does India Respect Diversity ?

Is there really Unity in Diversity?


In Between Here and There….

I just saw a disturbing but very well made Hindi movie called Darmayaan (In Between) on TV at my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The movie is about transvestites in India. It is a "not to be spoken about" subject in India. My congratulations to the Producers and Directors. Very well made movie and one that should make us sit back and contemplate. We should also give credit to all these people who had the guts to address a difficult issue.

Ms. Kiron Kher made her mark as an actress with the movie Devdaas. In this (Darmayaan) movie she deserves an Oscar if there was any in India.

I don’t think the producers will any make money on this movie but they have made a point. The world of transvestites is worth looking at. Thinking about India and thinking as Indians....

Consider the numbers....maths....

Knowing that India has 1.1 billion people we should look at everything rationally and mathematically. Isn’t India about numbers anyway?

After all, Aryabhatta was born in India. India gave the world zero (0) and decimals too. My fellow college mate at BITS Pilani, Sabeer Bhatia made HOTMAIL. Before that DNA, and therefore the science of life was discovered by Hargobind Khurana. Vinod Dham invented Pentium processor which powers most of the computers in the world. Now we have an Indian born scientist who has “discovered” the chemical structure of Mitochondria and how cells get energy and therefore how we survive, and this was done with the help of the pentium processor invented by Dhamm.

(I cannot understand how Obama got the Nobel Prize??? My prizes go to Bhatia and Vinod. Khurana already has a Nobel Prize. These other two guys changed the WORLD) !!!

Khurana will be worshipped as GOD someday as stem cells become the treatment of the day, but that is a different issue.

And, all this sh*t comes from India….

But how does India treat it’s citizens who are so called “different” from others??

Let me decipher this for you.

1.1 billion people: That is 1,100,000,000 people.

1 percent of that is eleven million .

0.1 percent is one million and another hundred thousand.

Assuming that 0.1 percent of India’s population is gay/transvestite, we are talking of nearly the entire population of some small countries. And my friends, these are INDIANS!!!

Should we not treat them as Indians and with respect as we feel we ourselves deserve??? Why should they be marginalized. Do you want them out of your "system" ? Ignore them or let them suffer and die ?

One million (or more), Indians may be in need of your help or just your understanding.

I am going to stand by them. What about you ?