Madrasis Vs Punjabis, Hindi Vs Marathi, Is India really independent!?, republic!!??

Hi Folks,

It's been a long time.. I started this blog in 2008.. and I have till date only managed to post 2 posts. And to tell u the truth.. I was lazy.. But I also had nothing to write about.. People often finds news around us.. They scribble their news in various forms of publications - newspapers, blogs, twitter, etc etc.. you name it. I dunno hw they find news... but i am no journalist and I don't find news around us.. But obviously i feel i should talk about something that bothers me, or that bother people around me - loud.. but who cares.. for me I am telling the truth (I think so) :). But for others.. I am mad...

Now to start my second blog apart from the klueless post, the basis of which is an SMS i got today.. wishing happy republic day. It says some vital stats abt our country. It goes like this.. 31 States, 7 Union Territories, 1618 Languages, 6400 Castes, 6 Religions, 6 Ethnic Groups, 29 Major festivals & 1 Country! Be Proud to be an Indian!. I don't know how far this is true. And I know this is an old SMS. For last 2 years I am getting same SMSs like this, only difference being the number of states (As far as I know, there are only 28 states and seven U.T.s till now). It's the same thing that wonders me. Why is it increasing day by day and why people are craving for more states? First all wanted a state based on their languages. And now they want.. I don't know why want they more states for. For religions? For Ethnic groups? One thing I am sure is, more states means more chaos and more diversity. 

I have a feeling India is falling apart. More than religious fights, India is facing this serious threat within the country itself. It's more dangerous than the fight between Hindus and Muslims and Christians and any other foreign terrorists decides to come to our country and kill innocent people. And why should they? Since we are fighting among themselves and decides to forego the Bagiratha task of Acharya Vinobhave et.al to unify this country through Bhoodan movement etc. Before the British, India was a place of numerous small princely states fighting themselves. And that helped the British to implement the policy of "Divide and Rule" so easily and conquer our motherland. We are making the same mistake again. We are cutting our country into more and more small pieces based on whatever ideals some opportunists propose. The first mistake being forming some states based on the languages spoken. If we continue like this, the following cartoon will soon be a reality.


LIKE THAT ONLY                  by Jug Suraiya & Ajit Ninan

Courtesy: Times of India, January 27, 2010 (Chennai Edition). 

Thus created a division between people. And people started fighting against each other based on language barriers. For e.g. Marathi Vs Hindi in Maharashtra, Tamil Vs Hindi or any other Indian languages like Malayalam or Kannada. For many Tamils, First they are a Tamilian, before they are an Indian. Same cases with Marathis and others. This division created so many political bottlenecks in various parts of India, like sharing of river waters, teaching and speaking other languages in schools, trade movements etc etc.Why can't they think as Indians first before they consider themselves as a Tamils or Malayalees or Marathis? And why are we still increasing this gap by dividing many big states and creating so many small so called states?

According to me, we should overcome the language and cultural barriers and make India as what our fore fathers who brought us freedom, dreamed of becoming. The No.1 country in the world in every terms. We should fight within ourselves to overcome our attitude towards other communities, other languages. Be it a Punjabi or a Tamil. As Chetan Bhagat said in "2 States" marriage of not two, but all states now exists instead of creating more divorces.  Then only we can proudly say that India is republic or India is really independent. For that, I guess we should start a new India One Movement :)

Jai Hind.