A Person Got Labeled As ‘Harami’ And ‘Pakistani’ After Reading An Urdu Book In Delhi Metro

With increasing intolerance in India, you never know what aspect of your personality or daily routine can be used against you. An activity as common as reading a book in native language made a few people spew out poison in a Delhi Metro.

Sowmya Rao recently tweeted a screenshot of a Facebook status which was uploaded by her friend. The status read that he/she was reading an Urdu booklet on a metro, and people labeled him/her as a ‘harami’ and ‘Pakistani’ because of that. Here’s what the tweet said.

Guys this happened to a really close friend today in Delhi and I’m getting a little worried now pic.twitter.com/AH5NSPIVTu

— Sowmya (@sowmyarao_) February 22, 2016

The translation of what the reader overheard is “Send these bastards to Pakistan, see what mess they have created in Kashmir. All of them are Pakistanis.”

 

Some tweets that followed were quite disturbing.

1.

.@sowmyarao_ @LazyFatYeti Sending them to Pakistan would be quite easy and cheap. Metro to JNU campus wouldn’t cost more than 20 bucks. ?

— Sir Alec Corbyn (@paynchOm) February 23, 2016

 

2.

@sowmyarao_ @mihirssharma Muslims should introspect why this is happening throughout the world

— Alok (@alok3847) February 22, 2016

 

3.

@alok3847 While all religion followers changed demslvs Muslim’ll not & play Muslim Card wid #AdarshLiberals spprt @sowmyarao_ @mihirssharma

— DEV SPACE (@DGIT666) February 22, 2016

 

4.

@DGIT666 @alok3847 @sowmyarao_ exactly my point. These Muslims love playing the minority card dont they? Enuff of this sickular drama

— M M (@armyenthusiast) February 22, 2016

 

5.

@DGIT666 @alok3847 @sowmyarao_ these idiotic muslims forget that even der original Quran is no more, it was rewrittem by the Sharia law

— M M (@armyenthusiast) February 22, 2016

 

6.

@sowmyarao_ @thaver_mohamed starting of Hindu nation.
We are proud every hindu is awaken now.

— Dharam Mali (@dharam9hindu) February 23, 2016

 

But fortunately, some made sense.

1.

@sowmyarao_ @DilliKiRanaiyan urdu such a lovely language, beyond the understanding of these brainless idiots. Maybe that’s the reason

— M Mitra (@MMitra4) February 23, 2016

 

2.

@sowmyarao_ 2 or 20 or 20000 people dont represent India. Have faith , be positive. may be ignore as one of incident.

— Praveen Kumar Gupta (@praveensharan1) February 23, 2016

 

3.

@sowmyarao_ @NigelBritto my point is can we let people be? Human mind is capable of understanding and appreciating a lot more

— Scientist (@floydianechoes) February 24, 2016

 

4.

@sowmyarao_
Urdu is a language not a religion. Premchand wrote ‘Gaudan’ and many of his masterpieces in Urdu.

— मानवतावाद (@True_Human_) February 24, 2016

Why do people forget that Urdu is one of the eighteen national languages of the Union of India. It’s not a foreign language. And even if it were a foreign language, how does anyone reading that will make them wrong or anti-national?

Let’s hope that people’s view broadens with time and such incidents are not repeated.