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Azhar Khan, Ethnically ethical!
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Okay.. So this question came up and I feel obliged to write the answer as I have faced so much discrimination all my life . I'll explain how much I was disriminated, for being muslim at every point of life in this intolerant country.
Early 2000s: A lower primary student, quite smart and short for age. A guy of same age, Ashish,quite built for that age comes to me and shares his food. Can you believe this? How can that intolerant jerk do that instead of bullying me for being only muslim in class and in school with 95% of students and staff hindu.
2012:I'm in 10th standard now, another kid of our school, Akhil, with his mother runs into me in the super market where they happen to see me by chance.They are very angry indeed.I was going on saying sorry,they weren't in a position to listen. They kidnapped me, took me with them to their home and you know what his mum said "Itna bolne k bad b tu diwali ko ghar nahi aaya, abi kha tere hisse ki mithai, poora khatam karna" Translation: "Even after intimating so many times, you didn't showed up for Diwali. You have got to finish all these sweets, now." See, how outrageous it is! Yes you guessed it right. They discriminated me and also tried ghar wapasi on me.Such hypocrites, tried to lure me with sweets and crackers.
2014: Graduation :A hindu college again, pure marwari this time. Every Friday, from 1-2 p.m I was given attendance even for not attending that class because I needed to attend Jumah prayer. Don't you see the discrimination?
I was elected as the representative of the college though entire mandate was hindu. Bloody Religious feeling everywhere. Huh!
I danced like there is no tomorrow with my hindu friends during Ganesh Nimarjan in our society , 'ghar wapised' may be :p
2015: I joined for internship at a very 'big' organization. So big were its policies in relation to leaves. It was just 15 days since we joined and bakrid was the next day. The Window for selecting the optional off had expired before we could understand the organization and it's leave application protocol etc. So 4 of us muslims in a team of 70 interns went to manager to request for the leave. We were still under training. So manager said that we can't grant leave individually. If it's going to be an off, then whole batch of interns i.e; 70 people will have to go for off and it will be deducted from total leaves. We were disheartened and we obviously knew that it is very stupid to ask someone to forgo their leave for something that didn't even mattered them.We thought it's fine we can come tomorrow, as the office is in the evening, we can manage. Some how our team of other 66 interns came to know about this, they talked with the manager without our knowledge and guess what? They sacrificed their leave so that we 4 could spend time with our families on festival.See how they conspired, bloody religious zealots ! They planned to bankrupt me by asking for "shirkhurma". This kind of discrimination is surely unacceptable in a secular country like Banana Republic .But in India, let india be submerged in this discrimination and intolerance for eternity.
