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Sunanda K Datta-Ray has a brilliant take on modern day racism. She says, the elite Indians were always global anyway. Its the rest of us that still have not been accepted.
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Racial Profiling Pulls Indians From Plane
Dutch authorities detain 12 Northwest Airlines passengers for 30 hours
Praful Bidwai (internews)
The 12 Indian men, who were arrested and detained for 30 hours by Dutch authorities following a security alert on a Northwest Airlines from Amsterdam to Mumbai earlier this week, were victims of racial prejudice. All of them are [...]

Richard Prince’s Journal-isms has a great addition today. Diversity in Sports!
The sports departments at daily newspapers in the United States and Canada, while covering a disproportionate number of athletes who are African American and Latino, have a diversity record worse than that of the sports they cover, a study commissioned by the association of newspaper [...]

Thanks, Satya for sending this out (in response to an earlier blog entry on reservation policy in India! It was written for “Indian Manifesto” mailing list at UMass., Amherst.

Dear All,
1) Firstly, reservation is NOT the solution.The solutions are universal education including higher education and jobs for all.
Reservation is nothing but a futile effort at managing [...]

We hear of comparisons between the white rule in South Africa and Israel’s system of control over the Arab peoples it governs. Chris McGreal takes a look at the two worlds and one apartheid.
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Fact finding report on killing of tribal protesters in Kallinga Nagar, Orissa. It is posted by Sandip Dasverma on Ornet list.
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Black Businessman Claims Pizza Giant Rep Told Him Domino’s ‘Didn’t Like Dealing With You People Anyway’

By Doris Lester (With permission)
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a racial discrimination case the week of December 5th involving Domino’s Pizza, Inc. that will decide whether a Las Vegas Black businessman who claims Domino’s discriminated against him can sue [...]

Taken from a local paper, Asian Capital Examiner.

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