Waris Ahluwalia’s advice for Trump: Find your humanity
Saturday, 18/03/2017
http://paper.hindustantimes.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
MUMBAI: With Indians in America facing racist attacks in the past one month, Sikh-American designer Waris Ahluwalia says he has been called by several names in the US but the weirdest was being called Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks in the country.
Ahluwalia said: “We have to realise that we are all the same and there is no other.” Being called with the name of a terrorist was in stark contrast from being called “Gandhi” while he was growing up in America, said Ahluwalia.
The actor-designer was speaking at a conclave hosted by a media house on Friday. Ahluwalia says post the elections in America, there have been several bias-related crimes which are nothing but the fear of the “other.” “One month after the elections, there were 1,094 bias related crimes in the US. When they’re coming to attack you during bias attacks, they don’t stop and ask are you Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist? We are all the other. We are on the same boat.”
