Its the third month (or more precisely, the 92nd day) since November 25th rally by the Indian community initiated by HINDRAF.
What has changed?
How have you changed?
Please share your thoughts.
SwarnaBumiputran of Malaysia
Its the third month (or more precisely, the 92nd day) since November 25th rally by the Indian community initiated by HINDRAF.
What has changed?
How have you changed?
Please share your thoughts.
Sivabalan says:
Indian’s are more united now and putting alot of pressure towards MIC and UMNO.
Shakila says:
I don’t know in reality if much has changed. Yes, i think more Malaysians realise that Indians here are a force to be reckoned with. And we do see splatters of change here and there. But we are not a real threat due to our small number. Even if all the Indians in Malaysia rally as one body, we are but a pinch in the 25 mil population. If you were running an organisation, would you mine the words of the employees that bring in the most money to the country or the few disgruntled ones. Let’s be realistic. I won’t say the HINDRAF movement is in vain. It is good and timely but what we need to do is change the mindsets of Malaysians who are in power to affect the laws of our country and that’s not easy to do. We don’t have freedom of speech or assembly – a fundamental right! How can we effect change when we can’t speak up.. HINDRAF leaders were bold enough to speak up but see where most of them have landed up. I think as a Malaysian we have to forgo the narrow minded thinking of ethnicity but work as Malaysians for the minority, and in this matter race shouldnt come into play at all. If this is a law, then no race would be left out. We need to change the mindset of the people in government to pass such laws and change archaic laws that hinder the growth of Malaysia. As for us Indians, we should be more responsible for our own lives. How many Indian businessmen you know who are helping other Indian SME to come up? How many Indians help/volunteer in Indian communities? How many Indians even speak Tamil / Indian dialects to acknowledge our kindredship? We are still so divided by our own divisions, castes, Tamils, Malayalees, what have you. These divisions are only important in sustaining your culture not in the government of a country and business but yet it is always there. And dont even get me started on how many of our local pundits who speak a lot but have not even registered as a voter. But i am optimistic – I think change will come, maybe it just needs to start with individual change first. Cheers!
Chandra says:
Greetings,
Hindraf has an impact on the indian community today. Many professional support Hindraf. What MIC was unable to do in 50 years Hindraf have done it on the 25th Nov 2007. We need change for the better and the elections may show some chamges but it will take some time and we need to be non violent and stand by our country Malaysia.
Killer says:
Well said Shakila….
Siva and Raaja :
Are we more united ? Are you joking ? NO, we are even more divided than ever….in fact we are doomed….HINDRAF is the worst thing could have happened to the Indians in this country..Instead of opening Indians’ eyes they have blamed everybody else for our problems but our own self…
I have said it before and I said it again, stop whinning and start being pro-active. Only then we can move forward….The secret of success for Indians is not special rights or quota but self-reliance and hard work….
Kamban says:
One strong point . After a long time (since VT.Sambanthan) , Hindraf made the 7% minority significant in the history of Malaysian social and politics .
Kamban says:
Below is the list we compiled till early Feb. Not updated after that ……. tight up ….
Achivement list of Hindraf’s Nov25 rally
1. Malaysian Indians get united in mass under HINDRAF umbrella.
2. PM want to setup the Hotline to handle problems faced by the ethnic Indians on NOV 30 2007
3. very first special meeting between Indian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi .All the NGO’s of Indians are given chance to raise the Indians comunity problem to PM on 14 DEC 2007
4. Kulim ( 1 of the estate’s school ) received proper water supply (News published in ‘Makkal Osai’ newspaper).
5. Recently all the Indian police officer got after their’s long waiting promotion on Dec 2007 especially in Penang state
6. S’gor MB had meeting with temple committe to sort out temples’ registeration and stopped demolishing temples.
7. Education minister start ‘turun padang’ especially for Tamil schools
8. Very miracle (no or 0 crime among Indians nowadays and big losses for government coz can’t charge them $ whr it is an extra income for Gomen (no statistics collected at this point of time)
9. More and more prayers and spiritual events going on nationwide
10. For the first time S’gor realized that ~40k Indians dont have birth cert and a special committe would be setup to handle this. (STAR 21stJan)
11. Public holiday declared for Federal on Thaipusam though was requested for decades
12. MIC said will give opportunity for many more youngsters to stand for coming election
13. Government tender below RM50k open to all (bumi and non-bumi)
14. the CIMB Group, which was the platinum sponsor for the
dinner, announced that it was setting up an Indian business advisory team specifically to advise and provide loans for Indian entrepreneurs.
15.Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop has promised to get Indian youths jobs in the Government if their applications are rejected without reason (STAR 2Feb08)
venkat says:
1.Overall Indians are more aware now and do not support the Umno enmasse like before. That is the sheen of BN is gone. Nobody believes UMNO double talk. The sole power wielder is Umno. We should not waste time talking of BN or MIC
2. MIC is not seen as the sole hope for Indians.
3. Hindraf has led to awareness and awakening among other races too.
4. What is the long term impact. that is anybody’s guess. It all depends on UMNO and how enlightened their leaders are.
Raman says:
We are united now; more IT literate & we know our rights. Now we also realize that we are “nadhan ak bumiputra” of this country .. So we should stop calling Malay as “nadhan”.
We already killed samy vellu politically and even buried MIC and exposing UMNO’s racial tactics and finally making BN irrelevant.
I do agree BN did something on the initial stage of our independence but as the generation getting knowledge we only can see BN and it leader become selfish and creating dynasty. 50 years ago those agreement that we have set with “Perikatan” no referred. One race try to overcome another and instead of taking other countries as enemy they plant more enemy within. This is the danger the nation face now.. Enemy within “selimut” which is not a mistake of Malay, Indian or Chinese but BN policies and the leaders. I have very good relationship with my malay and Chinese friend. Not only me I can see a lot of people working, studying, playing together.. the problem is not on the people but on the BN policies, we learned in school the British applied “divide and rule policy” but still can see the same policy applied until now..The country already got independence for past 50 years but the political parties still racist and they are hiding them self and use race issue as their shield. They are doing all sort of things and still get rid of when they play racial card well. As you can see the SL (son in law) did all sort of thing (200 million ECM Libra share) which not many young and talented man do but still get away with this after telling malays “if Umno became weak, non-Malay political parties would seize the opportunity to make demands of the ruling party had drawn the ire of the MCA”.
And recently I realize that the current democracy system that we have in Malaysia not really suite to multi racial society. The PM is for all that what everybody knows.. he could be Malay or Chinese or Indian but normally the Malay lead (since they have more population) but this does not me he is the best person we have.. we can have 10000 Malay doctors but when come to Indian & Chinese we only have 100 doctors remember all of them are specialist. So we have quality and they have quantity. But in any organization finally the quality will take control on quantity. So I think this will happen to our nation as well. So in another analysis as I mention PM for all….. do you know how many Malay percentage voters are there in Najib constituency .. it is 99% so now how you can expect him to manage Malaysia wisely or equality for all race when only 60% of Malaysian population are Malays .. So we need to do the change.. if we succeed this time I think more changes will comes soon. If this change bring some success story I believe more people will start believe in future changes… finally with all this change we can get rid of all the racist, corrupted, selfish, rude, arrogant politician out of our political system.
mmuurrllyy says:
hello..killer
hindraf are asking “special rights” as u said.
if u dunno anything …don’t waste ur time fishing votes 4 BN
maybe you can introduce urself…here…
then the we can know how self-reliance and hardworking u are.