Not strong on logic and analogy, are you?
Once again, just because some people allow another group to cook their meals or babysit their kids does not mean they view them as equals.
The reference to American history was meant to illustrate that point, and the fallacy of saying "my cook is a Muslim so that proves Muslims are first-class citizens in India".
No buddy, I am waiting for you to bestow these traits on me as manna from heaven.
You have missed (needless to mention, on purpose, it your effort to add another India-bashing post to your tally) the crux of what was being put forward by my compatriot.
When Bapu visited Jinnah's house for a meeting to convince him about not pushing for Pakistan, he did not even call for his customary bottle of boiled water, lest it be misconstrued as a Hindu taking ganga jal with him into a Muslim household.
From those days, we have come a long way today as a secular forward looking nation, and muslims and hindus eat together, drink together, muslims cook the meals in hindu homes, and I know from personal experience in my circle, hindus cook in muslim homes too. As do many christian cooks, as well as nannies/ayas/bais of all religions working in homes of other religions to take care of little children. Something which in the old days would not have been possible and would have entailed cleansing/purifying rituals. Food and cooking is a big deal in terms of religion, as i am sure you must be knowing only too well, and as Indians we are very attuned to each others sensibilities and no home will bring taboo meat into the home to be cooked by a cook of another religion. We will not even order such meat when we sit down together to eat in deference of the other's sensibilities. That is how Indians coexist. That is how we grow. We care for each other and respect their space and customs. It has nothing to do with master and servant as you have quickly assumed in your headlong rush to malign us ..... as usual.
I guess in all this there is no sense in talking to you about the dignity of labour, and the fact that in most Indian households, our old servants have been with us from generations and are treated as part of the family. And no, i am not paying lip service here ...... short of the fact that they are paid a salary (and pensions too when they are too old and feeble), they eat what we eat, we take part in their family functions and vice versa, same with festivals and sweets and gifting of clothes, they fight with the womenfolk like cats and dogs and then make up like long lost friends, and never are they ever made to feel as if they are servants. We leave our children with them knowing they will be as safe as if with family. We leave money and jewellery open in the house knowing that it will not be stolen. This is all based on the trust between one human being and another ..... Hindu, Muslim, etc. never enters the picture. I am sure it is the same in pakistan too, coz we come from the same culture.
Let me know when to say good night.
Cheers, Doc
