All those who follow cricket would be aware of the verbal spat which happened during India's tour of Australia in 2008-09.
I would like to say to all Australians and Westerners that what happened in 2008-09 which was verbal spat between Harbhajan Singh(Bhajji) and Andrew Symonds did not involve the use of the word 'monkey' but 'maa ki' which is like an abuse in India.
Andrew Symonds heard the abuse which is called 'gaali' and it is common among North Indians especially to remark 'maa ki' and 'behan ki' as a form of 'expletive'.
Now recently Ricky Pointing has put his memoirs but the main fact he has missed and that is that Harbhajan did not call Andrew as 'monkey' but was hurling abuse in the 'choicest of words'. In other words he was abusing his mother. Maa means mother and behan means sister.
Thus Indians abuse the oppositions mother and sister while hurling abuses towards the opposing parties.
Now a lot of Indians will support Harbhajan and let me tell you that this is a fact. You don't have to look far. Just look into twitter or youtube or Facebook comments and photos.
Westerners mainly from UK and Australia may think that they have got 'Indians under their skin' because 'Indians are playing their game' which is cricket but actually Indians have something else in mind. They have the thing in mind that they 'can defeat the West and White people' by winning cricket which has long been the 'White mans game'.
Now who are these people who take great pleasure in abusing someone else's mother. It cannot be the 'religious nationalists' or 'religious extremists' or 'hard core religious followers'. No religion will permit the abuse either verbal or otherwise of someone else's something as sacred as mother.
It is only the 'plain nationalists' who will do such kind of thing. For them it does not matter what happens to the opposition. What matters is whether they win or not.
But I personally feel someone as sacred as mother should not be abused. And certainly not by a country's national team players be it in whatever sport. What Salman Khan told in last weekend Big Boss show is worth noting. "When he and Govinda were going somewhere, some youngsters hurled them these kind of 'choicest abuses'. he wanted to leave them but Govinda followed them and told them that 'your mom is my mom' and now start abusing. Immediately those people started apologising." A lesson to be learnt here. That we should not abuse someone's mother or sister because where do we draw the line. 100% of humans (humans as a race) will have a mom. And many I would suspect more than 50% would have a sister (could be more). We need to treat them with respect.
All women need to be treated with respect. It is just not right to not only justify these kind of incidents but to keep repeating it in 'newer and newer Avatars'.
I would like to say to all Australians and Westerners that what happened in 2008-09 which was verbal spat between Harbhajan Singh(Bhajji) and Andrew Symonds did not involve the use of the word 'monkey' but 'maa ki' which is like an abuse in India.
Andrew Symonds heard the abuse which is called 'gaali' and it is common among North Indians especially to remark 'maa ki' and 'behan ki' as a form of 'expletive'.
Now recently Ricky Pointing has put his memoirs but the main fact he has missed and that is that Harbhajan did not call Andrew as 'monkey' but was hurling abuse in the 'choicest of words'. In other words he was abusing his mother. Maa means mother and behan means sister.
Thus Indians abuse the oppositions mother and sister while hurling abuses towards the opposing parties.
Now a lot of Indians will support Harbhajan and let me tell you that this is a fact. You don't have to look far. Just look into twitter or youtube or Facebook comments and photos.
Westerners mainly from UK and Australia may think that they have got 'Indians under their skin' because 'Indians are playing their game' which is cricket but actually Indians have something else in mind. They have the thing in mind that they 'can defeat the West and White people' by winning cricket which has long been the 'White mans game'.
Now who are these people who take great pleasure in abusing someone else's mother. It cannot be the 'religious nationalists' or 'religious extremists' or 'hard core religious followers'. No religion will permit the abuse either verbal or otherwise of someone else's something as sacred as mother.
It is only the 'plain nationalists' who will do such kind of thing. For them it does not matter what happens to the opposition. What matters is whether they win or not.
But I personally feel someone as sacred as mother should not be abused. And certainly not by a country's national team players be it in whatever sport. What Salman Khan told in last weekend Big Boss show is worth noting. "When he and Govinda were going somewhere, some youngsters hurled them these kind of 'choicest abuses'. he wanted to leave them but Govinda followed them and told them that 'your mom is my mom' and now start abusing. Immediately those people started apologising." A lesson to be learnt here. That we should not abuse someone's mother or sister because where do we draw the line. 100% of humans (humans as a race) will have a mom. And many I would suspect more than 50% would have a sister (could be more). We need to treat them with respect.
All women need to be treated with respect. It is just not right to not only justify these kind of incidents but to keep repeating it in 'newer and newer Avatars'.
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