Indians face racial discrimination in Singapore

"One evening, I drove to Little India and it was pitch dark but not because there was no light, but because there were too many Indians around." - Choo Wee Khiang, Singapore's ruling People's Action Party MP, in a speech in Parliament in 1992. Last Sunday's riot in Singapore was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Such friction will persist so long as India continues to export manpower, whether tycoons who squander fortunes on weddings, scholars who win Nobel prizes or unskilled labourers who gratefully take on jobs that their hosts won't deign to touch.

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