{"id":24866,"date":"2020-01-27T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T22:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/?p=24866"},"modified":"2020-01-27T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T23:12:19","slug":"sudha-murthy-heathrow-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/sudha-murthy-heathrow-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Sudha Murthy was Called Cattle Class and Told to Queue up for Economy Flight at London Heathrow"},"content":{"rendered":"
In the colonized India, the British suffering from superiority complex used to treat common people as untouchable cattle.<\/strong> In an instance of the British\u2019s racial prejudice against the brown complexion, Mahatma Gandhi, a young lawyer then, was thrown off the whites-only first class coach of a train in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. It has been decades since 1947, but the attitude towards plainly dressed Indians has not improved much<\/strong>. They are judged on their looks and clothes, and the way they appear in the current era of capitalism.<\/p>\n That\u2019s how Sudha Murthy was treated at London\u2019s Heathrow International Airport. She was abhorred as someone from the \u2018cattle class\u2019 and asked to stand in the queue for economy class flights to India<\/span><\/a> when she was waiting to board her business class flight to Bangalore. Sudha Murthy is a devoted philanthropist, a widely published author, and the chairman of Infosys Foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n The grey-haired Sudha Murthy dressed in a plain salwar kameez was sitting in the boarding area at London Heathrow Airport. When not traveling she prefers to wear a sari.<\/strong> Since the boarding time was not up, she began to observe her surroundings and the people of different age groups around her. As most travelers around her were waiting for the same flight, she could hear them speak in Kannada. Some of them were old married couples, possibly returning from a visit to their children in the UK or USA. She heard some English business persons chatting about India\u2019s economic development.<\/p>\n