The offended Indian: Snapchat controversy

You are not a real Indian if you have never said "Is desh ka kuch ni ho sakta"(India is going nowhere)

India is a easily offended country.

Shhh...I should use the word highly sensitive.

 Sensitive To The Point Of Insensitivity

A recent controversy about Snapchat prove the above point.

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All this start from a former snapchat employee alleging that two years ago company CEO Evan Spiegel said that "This app is only for rich people....I don't want to expand into poor countries like Spain and India."

Read it again, the whole controversy start just from an allegation.

Interestingly, the employee is already having some serious charges against him.

But we are too sensitive to leave it without making a controversy with it.

Thanks to the powerhouse Reliance JIO for providing free internet to everyone to make this a successful campaign. 

Here are some key takeaways

Firstly, it is a tragedy that our level of debate has fallen so drastically that a foreigner’s alleged comments have to be the main topic of discussion for millions of us.

Secondly, it reflects a lot on who we are as a people when we defame an individual over unverified comments allegedly made two years ago in a boardroom. It shows how gullible we are that we are eager to jump at an unverified news story and throw abuses at someone as long as it satisfies our personal biases.

Thirdly, if Spiegel really called India a poor country, so what? Are we so unconfident as to not take an opinion head-first? Or have insults and abuses become our favoured way of response?

Fourthly, and most importantly, why is our self-esteem so low? Why are we so insecure in our own skin that we allow an American man’s alleged comments to define ourselves and how we portray ourselves to the world?

Aren’t we supposed to be better than this?

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