The Racist Motherboard

So it is another Friday afternoon. I and my friend, Srinardhani excitedly leave office to have lunch. Venue: the food court, DLF Cybercity, Hyderabad. As always there are lesser number of tables than there are people. Srinardhani is not too hungry and I headed over to Sun and Moon (one of the smaller food joints) to get my lunch and we find a table in front of Motherboard, another eating joint run by Sri Hospitality & Ventures Pvt Ltd which also runs the Blue Ray chain of restaurants.

Now the practice so far at the DLF food court has been that anyone can sit anywhere no matter from which joint they have bought their food. I can eat a Domino's pizza in front of Motherboard and I can eat a dosa, bought at Motherboard in front of Pink Elephant. As an employee working in the grand SEZ building I can sit anywhere I like. Rules change, Motherboard, since this afternoon does not want to entertain people buying their food elsewhere at their tables. Since it is a business it is totally understandable. As I had bought my food from Sun and Moon, I and Srinardhani were asked to vacate our table rather impolitely by some guy who works for Motherboard (whom we had never seen until this afternoon). So we did vacate the table. What irked us was the fact that there were a bunch of foreigners (white people) from a first world country eating pizzas bought at Domino's at a table belonging to Motherboard (right behind us!). They weren't asked to vacate their table.

Why?

Irritated, we asked the guy who made us vacate our table as to why they weren't ask to leave. He said they are our regular customers. Our question to him: ''who do you think we are?" He kept repeating his pathetic explanation of regular customergiri and we kept losing our cool. At the end of our discussion with him he walked away saying. "Do whatever you like, I don't care."

Angry at his callous attitude and rather racist mindset we approached the management of Motherboard repeating the incident. All they could say was their employee was new and could not speak English well and hence there is a language barricade. Language barricade? We were asked to leave the table in perfectly good English and our problem was not with the language.

We are not angry that we were made to vacate the table, not angry that many people like us were asked to as well. We're not angry at the white people, they were having their lunch like the rest of us and are not to be blamed. What angered us extremely was the racist behavior of this man from Motherboard. Some hospitality this is! This is how Motherboard treats its everyday patrons.

Also very questionable is the inherent racist behavior among Indians. We are the biggest racists on the face of the Earth. We discriminate among ourselves. How then can we expect the rest of the world to treat us with respect?