You want to enjoy night life in Delhi ? You’d better be an expat, white or very rich. According to the Times of India, in 2007, a photographer from Nagaland was refused entry in Urban Pind, a trendy nightclub in Greater Kailash-I, South Delhi, because she did not have the ‘the right profile’.
She decided to sue the manager for discrimination. She was the first North-East Indian to do so. Though the club hardly got fined, an important issue has come into the eyes of the public. Even on Facebook, a popular social network site, there are 1,000 members in the ‘Boycott Urban Pind’ group.
One year later, nothing has changed. The Urban Pind managment is still judging consumers from the colour of their skin to allow them to enter. Meanwhile, white people are overrespected because they get associated with money and power.
Lately, the club has created a weekly ‘expat night’ on the terrace, where white people can buy an open bar bracelet and enjoy unlimited drinks all night long for Rs 750.
For the few lucky Indians who manage to get in the club on these nights, the treatment is thoroughly different. They will stay on the first and second floor, with no open bar and only among Indian people.
According to the manager of Urban Pind, Tahir Hussain, “expats like to enjoy themselves together in open air”.
Last Thursday, Marie Naudascher, from Jamia Millia Islamia could witness a blatant case of discrimination. She had a talk with an Indian lady who got denied entrance and her white-skin Iranian friend who got in easily.
Click on this link to listen to it:
Boomp3.com
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23 septembre 2008 à 12:35
No comment…in fact….so so strange…