Incident at the airport.

We were at the Indira Gandhi International Airport last night, waiting for Stephanie and Oliver: the friends that we have met in Abuja, Nigeria. I was watching at the people on arrival hall and realized that among them, a lot of senior citizen from Europe. They have chosen this country (India) for their vacation. They looked tired after a long journey and at that moment, they had to wait for their luggage. The airport is smaller then what they thought: I had the same in my head when the first time, I arrived in New Delhi. The airport itself, isn’t really pleasant for one country who considered itself as a develop nation.

I look up on the ceiling; there I saw a lot of electric cable hanging around and I look down on the floor; some mark of the “panne” on it. I asked myself; when they will have a world class airport like what they said all the time while there is still a lot of thing has to be done starting from the mentality of the people.

I turned to the immigration counters and still there was no sign of Stephanie and Oliver. I look around the place, look at the people. After a while, I saw Laurent moving forward to the escalator to welcome our friends and at the same this one immigration officer asked me step back. I found that so ridiculous because Laurent and me are from the same Embassy and both of us having the same authorization batch. It was clear for me that was only about our skin color. Laurent is a white man and he is allowed to do what he wants while for me as an Asian there is a line I have to follow. Neither what I felt that time was the racisms are very much alive and it wasn’t the first time anyway nor the last. As long as I’m living in this country, I know that I will face this discrimination. The

It is hard to be in the place where you feel that you are not belong to and it is hard to face all these thing in your everyday life, and that you can’t integrate with the local people. I use to tell all of my friends and family who would like to come and visit us here and at the same to visit this magnificent pays about what they will face here: about how rude they can be, how arrogant they are most of the time, about their hygiene or most of the time about my opinion of this country. I do regret to tell the people about what is really happening here and I don’t like at all to do that but I think it is also can help other who wish to spend their time here for the next vacation. India is a very nice country which offered variety of culture and religion. From north to south, east to west: India is shown its different color of life.

Big kiss from NDH/Gros becs de NDH