Chennai city is still battling nature’s fury and people are working together to ensure everyone’s safety and help is flowing from across the nation as mobile recharges, food, clothing and medicine supply and monetary contributions.
But amidst this positive environment, social media also saw some insensitive posts which did little to help.
In a display of ignorance, a Facebook user Ashish Chaudhary posted, “I don’t mind if Tamil people die, they never considered themselves as Indians.”
His second post read: “And then I ask myself. The land who do not accept our national language as their own language and prefer British English more in conversation to native Indians are asking for help from Hindi language people.”
But then came a prompt and the most sensible reply from a girl who put Ashish right back in his place. Anusha Natarajan gave the most fitting response to the insensitive rant.
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“Dear Ashish Choudhary,
First of all the good news, we “Tamilians” made it alive and stronger than ever. Now the bad news, your intellect is even teenier and tinier than the size of your brain, let me explain why:1) Hindi is not our national language, India has many officially recognized languages.
2) I see you’re from Mumbai, and that means you are technically not from the northern part of India.
3) ‘Hindi language people’ is not a thing, not at least where you come from.
4) People from south AKA Dravidians are the real Indians, you guys are immigrants from Persia (not to hurt anyone’s feelings, we love you all and will come for your rescue if and when needed).
5) So we embrace English, big deal! It helps us become CEOs of big companies around the world while you are still stuck doing something completely useless on MTV.
And finally, you are brainless. I can tell you this because while you accused us of embracing English, you typed both your posts in English. Not too sharp buddy, not too sharp!
Sincerely,
Everyone!”
Chennai battled nature’s fury and the worst ever crisis as the rains left almost the entire city flooded. All the schools and colleges were closed and even the airport services were shut down.