IDENTITY CRISIS
Posted by barunroy on May 13, 2008
By Buddha Lama,
We Darjeelingas, as we move out of our hills have no identity. Even though we have been living here since many centuries back we have been facing this problem called identity crisis in India and will be facing this until the day we are given a separate state of “Gorkhaland”. I would like to share a few of the instances where I have faced some instances of identity crisis. Three years back when I had gone to Bangalore for admissions the people there used to call me Chinese but when I told them that I am an Indian , judging by my chinky eyes they used to call me Northeastern i.e. Manipuri, Naga so are we entitled to this. Do we deserve this, when our parents are working in Government office providing service and earning revenue for the country.
Is the voter’s right given to us considering Indians is just to be used at the time of election. I feel sorry for all the people who have moved out of Darjeeling in search for a bright carrier and future but have no identity and can’t even call him/herself an Indian. Please suggest us, the darjeelingas outside whether we should hang the voter ID card along our neck to prove that we are Indians. Being the subject of Bengal we become a Bengali and our mother language being Nepali we become a Nepali so please let us know “WHO WE ARE ?”
