Up until Monday, Esha Gupta was just a Bollywood actress with a passion for Arsenal football club.
That changed after the actress decided to share a screengrab of a WhatsApp conversation in which a friend mocked the team's Nigerian star, Alex Iwobi, as a "gorilla" and "Neanderthal" who "evolution had stopped for".
"Hahaha," wrote the actress, who helped Arsenal unveil its 2017 away kit, as she shared the screengrab with her 3.4m Instagram followers.
"Of course I'm not surprised by the post," Ezeugo Nnamdi told the BBC from Delhi, his home of five years.
In fact, the secretary-general of the Association of African Students in India (AASI) added that, as racial slurs go, her words were no worse than what fellow African students experienced on a daily basis - to their faces.
"Racism is not something which is very hidden here. It is something very open," he said. "People just look at you.
"They call you 'habshi' [a derogatory term], and a lot of other words and racial slurs.
"Here, you are regarded as a cannibal."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47042681
