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Delhi Golf Club Allegedly Asked Meghalaya Woman To Leave Saying She Looked Like A Maid!

bySusri Sahu
27th June 2017
3 minute read
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India, unfortunately, is on its way of becoming a melting pot of hate, brewing the potions of racism and casteism. No, I’m not a pessimist but if you do not believe me just glance at the day’s paper and reality will fall flat right in front of your eyes.

Like the milieu around, even the systems in place reek of capitalist notions that function on the voyeurism of consumerism. And if you think, it cannot get any worse, I have news for you. A news that regresses us back, into the archaic times of oppression based on caste, creed and race.

In an unfortunate event, a 51-year-old woman from Meghalaya, Tailin Lyngdoh was allegedly asked to leave her lunch at the Delhi Golf Club for ‘looking like a maid.’ She was wearing Jainseim, a traditional Khasi attire when she was subjected to such insult. 

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“They told me, ‘Leave the dining hall, maids are not allowed.’They even said that I look like a dustbin.

They were very rude. I felt ashamed and angry. they told me this dress was not allowed.”

Tailin, who is a governess, works for Nivedita Barthakur and was invited for lunch at the Delhi Golf Club by a member.

 

Speaking on her behalf, her employer, Nivedita Barthakur even took to Facebook and posted a scathing expose of ‘North Indian bigotry, chauvinism and ignorance’. She wrote,

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An example of North Indian bigotry, chauvinism and ignorance: many of us have been slighted in the capital of India for being from NE part of the country and have lived to tell our tales! Today Tailin Lyngdoh, an extremely proud, Khasi lady who has travelled the world in her Jenseim from London to UAE was thrown out of the Delhi Golf Club because her dress was taken for a maid’s uniform! Despite she being invited in her own right as a guest of a member. She was humiliated and the two gatekeepers of haute culture of Delhi, one Ms Sumita Thakur and Mr Ajit Pal, did not even have the grace to apologise.
The room was full of Delhi elites who make their maid’s and nannies wait outside in the heat lest they pollute their surroundings, and I bet many of them were civil servants and keepers of the Indian constitution. It was so appalling at many levels: that a citizen of India is judged on her dress and treated as a pariah; that in this day and age human rights of so many citizens can be trampled on just because he /she earns an honest living as a help. And that mainland India still has to be educated on their countrymen seven decades after freedom. And what is this hangover that we are whiter than whites and frown upon Indian wear in these hallowed bastions! Would anyone even listen and take action?

 

On the other hand, the Delhi Gold Club administration has refuted the claims and maintains that it was an unfortunate event which shouldn’t be given political overtones. In a statement issued, they said,

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While there is time before the allegations are proved, the nature of the same leaves our heads hung low. What has become of us? And how?!  SHAME.

News Source: Indian Express, NDTV

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