Next, yes, it’s true, Assam’s Lovlina Borgohain won a boxing Bronze, Manipur’s Mirabai Chanu won a weightlifting Silver, and Manipur’s Mary Kom has been India’s champion boxer for years, but what about our other fellow Indians from the North-east – from Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal, Sikkim, Manipur, Assam, Tripura – when they are called Chinki, when they are beaten up, even killed, as young Nido Taniam was, in Delhi, when they are asked – ‘Tera rate kya hai?’, when people refuse to rent them rooms or flats?
Surely, for handling all such disgusting abuse with dignity, they deserve medals!
Next, lets drop all talk about medals, and talk about Gangrape – a 9-year-old Dalit girl from Delhi just a few days ago allegedly gang-raped and killed, her body forcibly cremated. In September 2020, a 19-year-old Dalit woman was gang-raped in Hathras, UP. She died two weeks later. In January 2018, 8-year-old Asifa was abducted, gang-raped, and murdered near Kathua in…