Who are we - Defined Stereotypes?

Posted in response to a blog on CNN IBN : My house hunting

Home -is where we all belong or perhaps not. Perhaps its never the place but the people. And when people around you, make you feel isolated , you are lost and you wonder where you belong.

Stereotypes are what drives our understanding of people. Parsis are suppose to be intellectual albeit funny, Punjabis are suppose to be enterprenuering albeit loud and ostentatious ,Bengalis are suppose to be intellectual albeit eccentric. Kashmiris - we all know it.

If we drive the question inwards we might get some answers within us.For the media is partly responsible for creating the stereotype as well.Pick up the recent papers and you will see KASHMIR and KASHMIRIS written all over.More so the reports of terrorists finding more prominence , then the people bearing the brunt each day. So may be somewhere down the line the word " Kashmir" does ignite fear.They are suffering in their home and elsewhere and yet the apathy.

We want reservations. We also want equality. We want democracy. We also want to vote on caste / religion.We want ourselves to be humanitarian.We also want to be clanish. Ironical isnt it?

India, my motherland, tell me where I belong!
Vande matram