The new year has got off to a racist start – at least on the cricket field. A brown skin, skinny, Asian fellow has been accused of racially abusing a fair (almost) skinned, burly anglo-saxon. This must be the first time that racism has happened in almost the reverse order in which it traditionally has operated. Perhaps the white-men doesn’t quite understand the basic nuances of racism. Racism is nothing about races – it is about power and if the Australians are the numero uno cricket team in the world then it is they who wield oodles of it and not the Indians. It is also foolish to attribute a rank to an insult, which by itself is something grossly deplorable. Making a “racist” insult to be of higher severity is opening up the ranks to other “innocuous” insults that can be equally demeaning. This monkey business of insult and insinuation in the name of “sledging” has gone too far. It’s time the monkeys looked upto Darwin, took encouragement and moved on with evolution.

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