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Welcome racist India! No black cheerleaders please!

In the very first edition of the Indian Premier league (IPL), there has been string of pathetic displays of bad behaviour from the likes of players and team officials, from downright physical assaults, verbal abuses and dirt cheap treatment of the lesser known fringe players of the IPL by their team owners. What has been even more shocking is the report on some black cheerleaders been asked not to perform quite simply because the Indian people don't like to see dark people. Dancers Ellesha...

On India and racism

I wanted to write about this and then stumbled on this short but well written article from the Ducking Beamer's blog on India and racism. You can read about it here. However let's not confuse this to the actual incident that happened and focus on some of the statements from the boards, ex-players who truly believe that India is not a racist country. Are we sweeping things under the carpet ourselves? Of course!