Three Northeast women get racially abused. A serious issue. So what does this author do with it? Spends half the article on her missing cat bowl.
That is not a joke. A plastic yellow bowl outside a meat shop becomes the centrepiece of a piece that also somehow invokes Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” — a concept built to explain the Holocaust. Used here to describe a WhatsApp argument with a neighbour.
Then comes the identity parade. Single. Assamese. Muslim. Animal feeder. Each label carefully stacked. By the time she is done, the three women from Arunachal Pradesh have quietly disappeared. They were never really the point.
The entire North Indian society then gets convicted — not the two people who did the abusing, but an entire population — on the basis of one incident and one author’s feud over a cat bowl.
And the religion angle? Completely gratuitous. It has nothing to do with racism against Northeast Indians. Nothing. It is there purely to add one more grievance to the pile.
The real victim here is the issue itself. Three women deserved serious journalism. Instead they got a personal diary with Nazi references
Three Northeast women get racially abused. A serious issue. So what does this author do with it? Spends half the article on her missing cat bowl.
That is not a joke. A plastic yellow bowl outside a meat shop becomes the centrepiece of a piece that also somehow invokes Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” — a concept built to explain the Holocaust. Used here to describe a WhatsApp argument with a neighbour.
Then comes the identity parade. Single. Assamese. Muslim. Animal feeder. Each label carefully stacked. By the time she is done, the three women from Arunachal Pradesh have quietly disappeared. They were never really the point.
The entire North Indian society then gets convicted — not the two people who did the abusing, but an entire population — on the basis of one incident and one author’s feud over a cat bowl.
And the religion angle? Completely gratuitous. It has nothing to do with racism against Northeast Indians. Nothing. It is there purely to add one more grievance to the pile.
The real victim here is the issue itself. Three women deserved serious journalism. Instead they got a personal diary with Nazi references