Opinion: Sam Pitroda's 'Chinese' Analogy Only Adds To Racial Bullying 'People Of East' Have Faced For Ages

A woman voter among others shows her ID card as she waits to cast her votes for the second phase of of Lok Sabha elections, at Kanchanpur village of North Tripura district.

Former Indian Overseas Congress president Sam Pitroda, who is known to be close to the Gandhi family, left his party his own party embarrassed this past week as he sought to use a flawed analogy to highlight India's diversity. In an interview to The Statesman, he said “people of East look like Chinese, people of West like Arab, people of North look like White and people of South like African". It is really very hard to grasp as to how the so-called intellectual mind of Sam Pitroda,