Hardik Pandya confronted the warmth in his first match because the Mumbai Indians (MI) captain, a few days again, in IPL 2024. The Ahmedabad crowd ensured Hardik had a tricky time focussing on the sport as they booed him all through the match. They had felt betrayed by former Gujarat Titans (GT) captain’s choice to go away the franchise and shift base to Mumbai. He continues to be trolled and hated on social media and will get referred to as many issues on the web.Â
Sportspersons perceive the feelings of the followers and there have been cricketers’ effigies burnt and slogans raised in every single place towards gamers up to now. But what Hardik is seeing is unprecedented. In IPL, one has by no means seen this stage of hate for Hardik from all corners. At the toss of MI vs GT, Ahmedabad crowd booed Hardik and social media continued to go numerous slurs on him.
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While no on deserves being referred to as with any sort of slurs, one specific slur is much more pathetic, each to Hardik and a caste-based group. It is the time period ‘Chhapri’. You should have seen it on social media that Hardik is named ‘Chhapri’. Not simply him, anybody who clothes in a flashy garments, has a cool hairdo, to make himself stand out from the others, is named a ‘Chhapri’. Maybe you might have used the time period too, in the course of time, to make enjoyable of your pal’s dressing sense or a coiffure. Hardik, who likes to decorate up in costly garments, put on gold chains, expensive watches et al, will get referred to as ‘Chhapri’ too on social media regularly. The pores and skin of his color is an enormous motive why Hardik receives this ‘slur’.
People use the time period to look down on those that have all of the sudden grow to be wealthy however their type continues to be ‘classless’. ‘Chhapris’ are those that are ‘cringe’, for therefore many amongst us. When followers hate on Hardik, they prefer to name him a ‘chhapri’ which isn’t a touch upon his poor cricket however a private assault on his previous.Â
But ‘Chhapri’ will not be a slur. It has turns into one in recent times. Chhapris, in reality, are a caste-oppressed group in India. Caste is determined by the place you’re born. People born on this group had been instructed to do just one job, which is to make short-term roofs. They make these roofs utilizing ‘chappars’, therefore referred to as ‘Chhapris’. They nonetheless exist. Some of them might have stop doing the job imposed on them by the caste system however they nonetheless belong to the identical group and face hardships, struggles and casteism regularly.
It is unfair that this group, which has already seen inequality of upper diploma, turns into a ‘gaali’ in in the present day’s India. This is not only the followers, but additionally the cricketers who must be extra conscious and delicate about such issues. We have seen how some cricketers have used the time period with none hesitation. We are doing an enormous disservice to them, and taking India and our society additional backwards.
You are free to hate on Hardik Pandya (for those who want to), slam him, criticise him for his poor cricket or no matter, however all that may be accomplished with calling him a ‘Chhapri’. It is time we realised that as we intention to make a ‘New India’, it’s important that everybody right here is handled equally.
