I was just going through the News section of the rediff home page. There is an article about the Cauvery issue called “Award is flawed”. I just went through the comments for that article. People from different states are challenging each other. One is calling the other a begger & so the others are calling the people of the former state as rowdies who only believe in violence. I read some one calling Dravid a Maharastrian & what not.
Cool down guys. I thought we are all Indians. Indians who want to challenge the world to become a super power. Indians who will unite to be invincible. Unity???? I don’t see it anywhere in the near future. It is like the time when the British came to conquer India. All the kingdoms considered themselves as different & supported the outsiders(British) just because they couldn’t stand each other.
Lets not repeat history by crumbling like this. We have a law & we have the right to appeal. We have the right to put forth our facts. Lets do it. Its a fight for water. Its a fight against a judgement that we want to object to if at all we do. Its NOT a fight between the people. Please differentiate between the two. Please remember that a violent bandh is also expensive for the state that declares it. Lets calm down & think logically.
Today India has become a brand to the world. Violence in Gujarat, bombing in Bombay, earthquake in Bhuj & Tsunami in Tamil Nadu are all percieved as problems in India rather than a particular state. We all want to grow so lets grow together as one by being the sensible ones.
Lets show the world that even in troubled times we say “Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara”.
Jai Hind!
From
An Indian.
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While your posts definitely are thoughtful reads, in my opinion, India is too diverse as a peoples to have a long standing communal harmony. A Punjabi might very well be from a different country as a Tamilian or an Assamese from a Gujarati. They talk, dress and eat differently. The problems arise when there is a clash of these sometimes diametrically opposite cultures and corresponding ambitions.
Just having an ethereal concept of Indian-ness is probably not strong or cohesive enough to bind us all together as a single entity. The world perceives us as India with a general ignorance of the diverse culture that we have within us.
We can forge a single entity from our diversity using brute force like other countries have tried, vanquishing forever the varied heritage and culture that has been inherited down the ages. But that would leave us a country without a soul.
So we just have to make do with our internal squabbles and trivial strife or form something akin to the E.U.
Cheers buddy… Jai Hind!
Well Said Chethana
The only way that will happen is as you said -everyone needs to wake up and consider that he/she is an Indian first and then whatever state they are from. The grassroots movement should start in schools where it should be drilled into children that they are Indians and nobody else.
Very good blog that you have written and I sincerely hope people do take heart to what the author is trying to drive home.
Take care
Hats off Chethna.
Well-said Chethna. I like what you have said, and subscribe to your views fully. I read an article that said the next world war would be over water. We just need a reason to fight and become narrower and narrower.
We have a long way to go in terms of unity, people still havent been able to come out of South-Indian,North-Indian,MAllu,Kannadiga,Tamilian….dalit… mentalities.
Refreshing post … After going through all the men-in-regional-cacoon thoughts posts in rediff discussions … it feels good n assuring to read your post and i only hope that majority of indian youths have the “am Indian” feel foremost.
Well, wont repest what others have spoken before me. Regarding the controversy, water as a resource is getting scarcer. So it would be quite logical to remove it from the state subject and make it the centre’’s headache
now it seems better…
Your post made interesting reading however what i feel is that the threshold for tolerance is changing and that should explain a lot of unpleasant things happening in today’’s modern world! Its happenining everywhere and perhaps its humanity thats taking a beating !!
Well its certainly not shameful to be an indian. Rather we should be proud of being one and certainly each of us can do our bit to glorify our great nation.!
Hats off to u brilliant post.Yes we need to think about it and stop behaving like children and getup and think n work for our country not filling the pockets of corrupt leaders
Yes………very much true!! Its really sad to see these things with our friends!! And one more thing: why dont u change the title a little bit!!!
I can”t agree with you more but I agree with what
monu had to say about the title
Genuine concerns, and obviously the Common Sense approach should apply. But vested interests of those ”who CAN DO” and being bogged down by day to day concerns of our voluble, volatile masses. …. .makes this virtually impossible.
The YOUTH can and WILL make a difference here, IF at all.
This is my belief.
I whole-heartedly support your patriotism except that the title u have given to the post sounded mis-leading.. it was only recently that i had posted a similar question at orkut rediffilanders community that if being a “gujrati/marathi etc ” takes precedence than where does “being an Indian” stand?.. truely as long as we confine ourselves to the fetters of caste/religion/state we wont be truely Indian..
u r perfectly right I am with U
You are right Chetna… Many have asked me how hundred thousand British took over the whole of India??? few realise that India then was more than1500 princely states or kingdoms…each at loggerheads with their neighbours…India as it seems was never one… looking at the regional parties grooming well … I find it difficult to swallow we”ll be better off than our ancestors when the British came…
One should feel Like an Indian and nothing more or less… I have put a lot of faith in the new gen X who I think will look beyond and see the good in oneness… Like my Grandmother said “you are Hindu,Muslim,sikh,Jain,etc. only in your house…one you step ouside the door you should only be an Human and an Indian…” hope all follow her adage
Pleasure reading your blog…which I chanced upon…
Jai Hind
Vijay Sarathi
Hatred, violence, bandhs n strikes r not going to help as this would only create illwill n lead to destruction. The issue needs patience, perseverence, tolerance n mutual goodwill. The problem of water scarcity ultimately needs a solution like the one suggested by our respected President Kalam namely pooling n linking of all major rivers of India. At the global level also, water is going to a major concern of the future n all right thinking people have to get together to devise ways to meet the challenge .