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Updated March 6th, 2018 at 03:29 IST

The Delhi Golf Club asked a woman to leave because they thought her ethnic dress made her 'Look like a maid'

Reported by: Ankit Prasad
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The Delhi Golf Club witnessed a highly discriminatory incident on Sunday, as a woman, who was a guest at what appears to have been a working lunch, was asked to leave by the club's staff, for "looking like a maid".

Tailin Lyngdoh, who hails from Meghalaya, was wearing a Jainsem, which is a traditional dress of the state's Khasi community. She was seated at her table along with several other attendees when the club's staff accosted her, asking her to leave. 

As per Lyngdoh and her employer Nivedita Barthakur, the staff made a number of insulting statements towards her. These included a derogatory and racist use of the term 'Nepali'. Despite their protests, the staff remained steadfast in the demand for Lyngdoh to leave.

Later, Barthakur wrote a number of Facebook posts about the incident - 

An example of North Indian bigotry, chauvinism and ignorance: many of us have been slighted in the capital of India for being from NE part of the country and have lived to tell our tales! Today Tailin Lyngdoh, an extremely proud, Khasi lady who has travelled the world in her Jenseim from London to UAE was thrown out of the Delhi Golf Club because her dress was taken for a maid's uniform! Despite she being invited in her own right as a guest of a member. She was humiliated and the two gatekeepers of haute culture of Delhi, one Ms Sumita Thakur and Mr Ajit Pal, did not even have the grace to apologise. The room was full of Delhi elites who make their maid's and nannies wait outside in the heat lest they pollute their surroundings , and I bet many of them were civil servants and keepers of the Indian constitution. It was so appalling at many levels: that a citizen of India is judged on her dress and treated as a pariah; that in this day and age human rights of so many citizens can be trampled on just because he /she earns an honest living as a help. And that mainland India still has to be educated on their countrymen seven decades after freedom. And what is this hangover that we are whiter than whites and frown upon Indian wear in these hallowed bastions! Would anyone even listen and take action?

She followed that up with - 

And this shows the true character of Delhi Golf Club! Not only are they pressuring me to back down their secretary Mr Hora has reportedly told a national newspaper that they were closed on a Sunday! First they behave disgracefully and now they are lying through their teeth. Speechless!! 

And lastly, she addressed the President of the Delhi Golf Club directly -  

Sorry Mr Shriram, President of DGC, it wasn't about dress codes; it was your hallowed club humiliating a lady because she looked different and dressed differently. It was because you and your Delhi elites are too embarrassed to sit with your domestic help and refuse to treat them as equals. This is about your colonial hangover which refuses to treat citizens of India equally and as per the Indian constitution. That's what this is about.

On Tuesday, the Delhi Golf Club issued the following statement - 

 

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Published June 27th, 2017 at 11:57 IST

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