CHOCO-VANILLA MARBLE CAKE AND DISCRIMINATION

 

CHOCO-VANILLA MARBLE CAKE AND DISCRIMINATION

 

 

 

One can appreciate the beauty of the day only after a long dark night and can only appreciate the peace and calm that night has to offer, after a long day of clatter and din. Such is the joy of the opposites, that one is incomplete without the other.

While baking a chocolate-vanilla marble cake recently, I was struck with marvel when I saw the outcome. It wasn’t the most beautiful of bakes but there was something about it that left me awestruck, and that was, the beauty of the contrast! Both these cakes individually are delectable and delightful in their own way but when the flavours of both are infused together, it takes it to a different level altogether. The amalgamation of the light coloured vanilla with the dark coloured chocolate is simply beautiful.

Pondering over the cake and its colours, I was transported to a different world and embarked on a completely disconnected train of thoughts. They say, human mind is extremely complex, as it has the capability to be physically present somewhere and mentally absent from there at the same time, so were my thoughts.

I started wondering about racial discrimination present all over the world. Every ethnicity looks down upon the colour which is a shade darker than theirs. One might grumble and complain about being victimized in the name of colour and race, but they will be guilty of doing the same if they are with people who are a tad shade darker than their own.

How easily we generalize fair and good-looking people, as well-cultured and label the dark, seemingly ugly (in general opinion) as animals! If a crime is committed and people from two races are present, the crowd will instantly crucify the one from the darker race. This is the bitter truth.

We consider fair to be lovely and dark to be ghastly but, is it actually the truth? I believe, both are ravishing in their own way. Look at a mixed group of babies from every race of the world. Will you be able to take your eyes off any of those gorgeous smiles? I bet you’ll be captivated by the charm of every baby in that group.

In fact, what about the world! In India itself we discriminate among girls of various complexions, people from different states and I’m not even getting into the caste angle……

Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we all would live happy lives and not bother others because they don’t look like us? Each person on this earth is beautiful in her/his own sense. We cannot certify one to be beautiful because of one’s complexion. A fair heart belonging to a person of any colour will eventually reign supreme and overshadow all others, no matter which race one belongs to.

So why discriminate?