My Indian Pickles

 Of course it’s not that have overtaken the Malaysian Indians already, but it’s not far. How Bangladeshis taking over our numbers raise a red flag? They aren’t making much significance by the way to the development of the country. Of course they aren’t making much significance YET. As of now, there are already 2.1 million registered and an estimated of 4 million unregistered foreign workers in Malaysia. Bangladeshis take up at least 600,000, roughly one-sixth of all foreign workers. Malaysian Indians are already no match in numbers compared to illegal workers. Of course, these are just in numbers only, as the foreign workers are not citizens in this country. However, these numbers show us how much foreign labour is coming in, in such a pace that they are slowly outnumbering Malaysians. Will Malaysia change as more and more workers start flowing in? What about the growing unemployment rates in Malaysia, and the worsening economy? On a personal note, just bec...

by Navinn Rajendran The caste system has always been an issue for an Indian, irrespective of where the individual is. I have always felt that the lack of understanding by the Indian Diaspora has led the issue to be hijacked by irresponsible individuals to be used for personal gain and further split the community deeply. I repeat, my focus here is narrowed down to the Indian Diaspora and I am further narrowing it down specifically towards Malaysian Indians. I have always had people complaining that the caste system should be abolished in Malaysia and it is causing racism within the community. Every time I try to explain it on my point of view, I end up being labelled as racist and so on. And then it hits me that lack of basic understanding of caste system in Malaysia had led to a negative viewpoint. Firstly I am going to further narrow down the subject to Malaysian Indians whom are Tamils. There are other communities that don’t face much of an issue in general. The Teleg...

    by Navinn Rajendran I am a Malaysian Indian. Yes. Malaysian first, Indian second. I kind of don’t know how ill survive in India if Malaysian Indians are forced to go back but somehow nothing is like Malaysia. The best decision that my grandparents made in their life was to stay put in Malaysia. Wait a minute. What you mean by stay put? Didn’t the British bring Indians to Malaysia. Errrmm. Lets look into some history before we fast forward to the present situation. Indians have been trading in Malaiyur, which is The Land of Hills way before British came by. The British kind of needed some help in plantation as they were lazy to do it themselves and brought our grandparents to Malaya. When they decided one fine day that they have scraped enough, they decided to leave.  But Indians weren’t as significant compared to 916 or precious gems to loot back. So an easy way out was to establish a united country that is peaceful among various races. Of course they lef...