Only in Ireland- Indian racism against Indians

A Dublin restaurant has been fined 3000 euros for refusing to serve an Indian customer. 

The kicker is, it was an Indian restaurant.

The Irish Times reports

In the discrimination case before the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Marie Flynn has ordered Ravi’s Kitchen at Pembroke Road in Dublin to pay Mayank Bhatnagar €3,000 to compensate him for the distress caused to him over the refusal of service.
Ms Flynn stated that in making the award under the Equal Status Act she was taking account of the embarrassment that was caused to Mr Bhatnagar when he was refused service in front of two subordinate colleagues.
In his evidence, Mr Bhatnagar told the WRC that he is Indian and alleged that he was refused service on the grounds of race.
Mr Bhatnagar stated that he attended Ravi’s Kitchen on July 10th, 2018 with two colleagues for lunch at approximately 12.30pm and that they were shown to a table by a female waiter.
Mr Bhatnagar stated that when the proprietor was handing out the menus, he asked him if it would take long as they had limited time for lunch. Mr Bhatnagar alleged that without answering his question, the owner asked him if he was Indian.
Mr Bhatnagar stated that when he said that he was, the restaurant owner said that he doesn’t serve Indians and Mr Bhatnagar had to leave.
He stated that when he asked the restaurant owner why he had to leave, the owner began to shout out loud about how his family had suffered.
Mr Bhatnagar stated that himself and his colleagues got up to leave and the restaurant owner continued to shout and the female waiter also started shouting in their direction.

Does this make any sense? Sure. Clearly Ravi's Kitchen is owned by a Pakistani or Kashmiri Muslim.

Except it isn't. The owner's name is Ravi Shukla- a high caste North Indian Hindu name just like Mayank Bhatnagar.

The Irish Times clarifies this-

 However, in an interview, owner of the restaurant, Ravi Shukla said on Tuesday that he didn’t attend the WRC hearing because he never received notification to appear.Mr Shukla said that it is his intention to appeal the ruling “and fight against this each and every step”.
Mr Shukla said that he is from India himself and has never refused a customer service on the basis on their nationality.
Giving a different version of the exchange with Mr Bhatnagar, Mr Shukla denied that he didn’t serve Mr Bhatnagar because he was Indian.
A native of northern India, Mr Shukla claimed: “I refused to serve him because he was unhappy with how long the lunch would take and he wanted a buffet and we didn’t have a buffet.”
Mr Shukla said: “It is a very one-sided ruling. I have lots of Indian customers and I have never refused them service because they are from India.”
Mr Shukla said that he was disappointed with the ruling “because I didn’t get a chance to speak”.
He said: “I have worked across the world for 35 years and I have an impeccable record as always living on the right side of the law. I am a hardworking businessman.”

So what actually happened? Did Shukla really tell Bhatnagar to fuck off because his own family had suffered at the hands of Indians or was Bhatnagar drawing the longbow?

As an elderly expat Indian myself, I can understand a reflex of hostility towards entitled young superstar IT titans or MBA Masters of the Universe who is merely a bird of passage in the West. These kids come from affluence and will return to even greater affluence. They inhabit an India which did not exist when we left. Unlike them, on our return to India we will be merely modestly middle class.

On the other hand, Indian restaurants all over the world need to have a few brown patrons purely as a signal of quality. Shukla is unlikely to have wanted to drive a brown guy out of his restaurant while seating his two white subordinates. I guess he will win on appeal.

Anyway, the only reason I mention all this is because Ireland is doomed to destruction caused by Indian on Indian racism unless it at last admits that Ireland belongs to Iyers only. We, I mean me, should be made Taoiseach immediately. I'd immediately through all those beastly North Indians- including Varadkar- out and thus restore the golden age of the leprechaun.