Being a color
What comes to your mind when you see colors? I see an artist's creative rendition on canvas. To some it means unadulterated nature. To some red means stop, yellow means caution, and green means go displayed on traffic lights. To some color symbolizes heritage, courage, patriotism, peace, truth determined on their national flag. And then there is that kind of color which divided people; that gave rise to segregation; that magnifies racism. That’s the color of the skin. I was born and brought up in Mumbai, India and have been fortunate to experience a pluralistic society in which people come from different backgrounds, traditions, cultures, religions and speak different languages. Officially there are 22 languages spoken in India and although Hindi is the national language, not everyone in India speaks the language fluently. You can hold the highest position in the executive, judiciary and legislative in India, even if you do not know to speak the national language. In India, sk