Wednesday 24 September 2014

Be Elite - but in your "Thoughts"

"Dude go watch yourself. You don't have the same class as me". Ever come across such discrimination?  I don't get this whole fixation with "Being Elite" just coz you are associated with a reputed institution. For instance, here in Mumbai people from "Xaviers or Jai Hind" college feel they first pooped diamonds when they were born. It's like "Oh you are from Jai Hind? Now history will always be classified as AJ- After Jai Hind and BJ- Wait, what?!

I saw a bunch humiliate a guy who wasn't that well versed in English. And on being retaliated with, pat comes the "Tu Jaanta nahi mera Baap kaun hai VERSION 2.0- Abbe Xavierite ke saamne bolne ki aukaat rakh"

(Read: "
You don't know who my father is VERSION 2.0 - Go develop some balls to speak to a Xavierite")
Yeah, yeah...his bad big guy! But don't you think you should have informed him that you are "heir" to the Queen of England and that even the grass that grows in your backyard, does so in English.

Okay. So a towny guy in Xaviers who's marks are less than hair on Anupam Kher's head (*Anupam Kher is a renowned actor from India) is smarter than an educated guy from a humble background. Looks like we got to start a candle march in loving memory of logic. Irony is these are the same people who share pics of the Prime Minister of India who delivers his speech only in Hindi and who wait.. was a chaiwala (person who delivered tea) and not a Xavierite. Ooooooh! Did I just offend the elites? Just knowing a language well doesn't shift you to a superior strata of society. Need proof? We all know where Rahul Gandhi is or wait even better "naked pics of Prince Charles partying". Isn't that "kewl" brah? 

Mockery of someone who hasn't had the same privileges as you doesn't make him pitiable. It reflects who YOU are as a person. It even applies to 'designer wear embellished & MAC make up kit decorated' girls who share pics of "Judge a guy not by how he treats you but how he treats the waiter" but who find a guy who speaks fluent Hindi but not so fluent English *L.S. and unsophisticated*. I always wanted to see a video when they first cried after their mom delivered them. Afterall wouldn't we all want to take down notes on how to cry in English? 

Don't cry about justice, compassion and equality from rooftops if you can't dish out any. Moral of the story "Always remember. You breathe the same Oxygen as others".