Chennai Pride!
I love Chennai with a fierce loyalty..
Even if there a number of things wrong with the city.Sometimes i get so angry with the way people from other parts of the country..(Not the world).. People from other parts of our very own country make assumptions about the city and its people. I want to relate something that happened recently. I was recently out of town for a performance with an artiste. We did 2 shows over a period of 3 days, organised by 2 different events companies. Now i came to know that when the artiste communicated to the events managers that the dancers had to brought from chennai, the first guy reacted like this:
"Chennai??? But the dancers will be too dark!!! And wont they dress badly????"
The second guy reacted like this:
"Chennai?? Why Chennai??"
Now never mind the fact that we are a reputable dance company with over 2000 shows all over the world to our credit with some of the best costumes in the city!!
If you are a South Indian from Chennai, then automatically you must be dark and ugly.. and dont know how to dress!!
This made me so furious..
These kind of prejudices in a country of dark skinned people is ridiculous, absurd, disgusting and frightening!!
I have a million things to say to all those people who have such ridiculous prejudices.
I have met and interacted with a number of people of African origin in my line of work and the kind of pride they have in their colour and their race is heartwarming!
Its downright stupid to make such dumb assumptions in today's Ratrace world.
I personally think that its South Indians who are the actual brains in this country and world over.
Why make assumptions about people from here, when tomorrow they will have the power to veto anything you say.
Its true, i think that Chennai has the capacity of becoming a superpower within the country, if only we Chennaiites could learn to harness all of our talent and use it harmoniously.
We should start a movement!"BE PROUD TO BE BROWN!" And as a part of this movement, we should right at least 70% of the wrongs in this city and face down anybody who dares to think we are weak and stupid just because of our colour!
Make this a warcry!!!"BE PROUD TO BE BROWN!"
Even if there a number of things wrong with the city.Sometimes i get so angry with the way people from other parts of the country..(Not the world).. People from other parts of our very own country make assumptions about the city and its people. I want to relate something that happened recently. I was recently out of town for a performance with an artiste. We did 2 shows over a period of 3 days, organised by 2 different events companies. Now i came to know that when the artiste communicated to the events managers that the dancers had to brought from chennai, the first guy reacted like this:
"Chennai??? But the dancers will be too dark!!! And wont they dress badly????"
The second guy reacted like this:
"Chennai?? Why Chennai??"
Now never mind the fact that we are a reputable dance company with over 2000 shows all over the world to our credit with some of the best costumes in the city!!
If you are a South Indian from Chennai, then automatically you must be dark and ugly.. and dont know how to dress!!
This made me so furious..
These kind of prejudices in a country of dark skinned people is ridiculous, absurd, disgusting and frightening!!
I have a million things to say to all those people who have such ridiculous prejudices.
I have met and interacted with a number of people of African origin in my line of work and the kind of pride they have in their colour and their race is heartwarming!
Its downright stupid to make such dumb assumptions in today's Ratrace world.
I personally think that its South Indians who are the actual brains in this country and world over.
Why make assumptions about people from here, when tomorrow they will have the power to veto anything you say.
Its true, i think that Chennai has the capacity of becoming a superpower within the country, if only we Chennaiites could learn to harness all of our talent and use it harmoniously.
We should start a movement!"BE PROUD TO BE BROWN!" And as a part of this movement, we should right at least 70% of the wrongs in this city and face down anybody who dares to think we are weak and stupid just because of our colour!
Make this a warcry!!!"BE PROUD TO BE BROWN!"
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