Dear Sir,
I am writing to you with regards to your latest episode of “Jan Gan Man ki Baat”( Episode 258: Atul Kochar and NRI prejudice). And I am writing with a hope that you will read this.
Sir, while I totally agree with you on what Atul said is wrong and highly condemnable but I don’t agree with you on how you painted every other NRI with a same brush. As an NRI myself I felt really bad with the tone and language you used for all of us. I totally agree with you that many young Indians are Intellectually poor and don’t understand our history,culture and society, and are living in an alternative universe created by “WhatsApp”. But this attitude has nothing to do with where we live and how much we earn. I have friends and family members who live both in India and outside and who are polarized as Liberals and Radicals. Sir, would you also call a hardworking labor who migrated from a village in UP/ Bihar to Delhi/Mumbai for a better opportunity and more earning: “chavanni atthani ke liye apna gaon chod ke gaye hai” and advise them not to discuss or have any opinion about social/political issues back in their hometowns?We live in a world which is literally getting flatter by the day and I don’t think anyone should be judged or called names for moving around the world to earn a better living. I for example,very proudly still hold an Indian Passport and feel I have full right to discuss and contribute in any or every political and social debate related to India.I identify myself as a Liberal and don’t support the radical mindset of BJP and RSS and when I express my opinion on social media there is some individual from the “Bhakt” community who similar to you tells me to shut up because I don’t live in India and don’t understand real problems and ground reality.
I respect you a lot sir and really appreciate and admire journalists like you, Ravish Kumar and others at The Wire for doing what you are doing so that people like me have a platform to get an unbiased report and point of view about things happening in our society and performance of our governments.
Hope you will not take any offense in me expressing my point of view on something I thought was not a right judgment of your fellow Indians by you.
Regards,
NRI ( Who does have little more intellect and not just one particular skill :) )
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