Super Desi Girl Problems

“There’s a huge difference between a woman’s love and a man’s love…”

This is Nav Bhatia with his ‘actor/rapper’ friend at an NBA game. In my previous post, I was more focused on his ‘friend’, but after some internet research, I feel that this dude deserves some more god damn recognition.

The 58-year-old Sikh is also the most famous Indian face on the North America NBA circuit with his official anointing as the ‘Super Fan’ of the city-based NBA team called Toronto Raptors for creating a record of watching over 500 games. “I am the only Super Fan anointed by the NBA. Each season, I spend $300,000 to buy 3,000 seats out of the total 20,000 for games held in Toronto and distribute them free to Indian kids to watch these games from front rows. The images of our kids in turbans and Indian dress beamed into millions of homes make white people aware of our identity,” he says. 

Want to know why he does this?

“I was walking into a Bell cellphone repair centre when a white guy, who was talking on the phone, said loudly: ‘Honey, I have to go now, my cab is here.’ Seeing my turban, this guy thought I am a cab driver. I was so hurt that I decided to do anything - spend any money - to change stereotypes about us,” says Bhatia.

So what, though, right? It’s an easy mistake to make, it’s not like he’s ever been discriminated against when looking for a job, or even getting white people’s leftovers? WRONG

Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai, Sonam Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Shahrukh Khan, Dia Mirza, Katrina Kaif, Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan, and Kareena Kapoor (and tons more) endorsing skin whitening treatments and fairness creams.