Meghalaya woman in traditional costume asked to leave DGC premises for dressing up like a 'servant'

The shocking incident, which took place on Sunday, has invited heavy criticism from the seven sisters.

The woman has been identified as Tailin Lyngdoh, who works as a governess for Nivedita Barthakur Sondhi, an honorary health advisor to the Assam government.

She had visited the place along with Sondhi as a guest.

Following the incident, Sondhi took to social media to write about her companion's plight.

In her Facebook post, she alleged:

"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, didnot 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?"

Her post has received over a hundred comments and likes and has been circulated nearly 200 times since then.

Image: Nivedita Barthakur facebook.com