While many across the nation continue to praise a North easterner’s victory at the Tokyo Olympics, actor-model Milind Soman’s wife Ankita Konwar has no time for ‘hypocrites’. And Konwar made that very clear in her latest post. On Tuesday Ankita Konwar, who hails from Assam, made a post on social media calling out racism against people from the region.
The 29-year old voiced her thoughts and called out the ones who are celebrating a North easterner’s victory while representing India and winning medals for the country, but otherwise subject them to racism and even are suggested to move to another country.
In her Instagram post, she wrote, “If you’re from Northeast India, you can become an Indian ONLY when you win a medal for the country. Otherwise, we are known as ‘chinky’ ‘Chinese’ ‘Nepali’ or a new addition ‘corona’. India is not just infested with casteism but racism too. Speaking from my experience. #Hypocrites.”
“Every. Single. Time. #Hypocrites,” Ankita wrote in the caption while sharing the post. She further revealed how this happens every single time with the people who hail from the Northeast part of the country.
The fitness enthusiast also mentioned different name-calling, especially how the matter got intensified after the novel coronavirus pandemic. She spoke about North Easterners being called ‘Chinese’, ‘chinky’, ‘Nepali’, and ‘Corona’.
Meanwhile, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Indian weightlifter, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, who hails from Manipur, won a silver medal. Chanu had lifted 87 kg in snatch and 115 kg in the clean and jerk category.
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