I am doubly saddened today when I read that the Juhu Plaza Hotel in Mumbai (earlier Bombay) had thrown out a Pakistani Film Producer Hasan Zaidi just because he is a Pakistani national.
More horrible is the hotel representative's justification that many hotels in Bombay ( and I don't know where else in India) follow a similar policy of not giving rooms to Pakistani and Bangladeshi Nationals.
I am very ashamed of this behaviour and I feel the Central Government should step in and immediately revoke the licences of these hotels to operate. There is no justification for such exclusion on any ground at all.
I am worried that with India getting closer to USA economically and with the Nuclear deal in the offing, there should not be any copying of America's tactics of excluding or profiling people on the basis of Nationality, Names, Skin colour etc. "War on Terrorism' should not force civilised nations to do despicable things in the name of 'protection and security'. It is all very wrong.
India just recently celebrated her 60th Anniversary along with Pakistan and one of the themes in all the news items was the evils of partition and the massacre that took place at that time. After the passage of 6 decades, attempts should be made to bring the two people together and small-minded people and organisations that work against this should not be encouraged at all.
Hope the Indian Government acts fast to rectify this injustice
Mahatma Gandhi's Nation has to lead by the right example
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