one-india

an entire decade of the 21st century has come n gone but still the country stands divided today. we continue to look at our own fellow countrymen as hindu, muslim, north indian, south indian etc,etc......the list is endless. in the history lessons back in school days we were taught about the great Unity in Diversity of India but the truth is just one miniscule incident in any nook or corner of the country is enough to blow our heads off and go on a rampage against our own countrymen. this mercurial nature of ours is put to a brilliant and shrewd use by our eminent politicians. though we can blame only ourselves to be influenced by those who have nothing but their own selfish interest in their mind and history is witness to the fact that the one who has always lost in the mindless battle of religion,regionalism...is the aam junta the mango people. who lost in the 1993 bomb blast, gujarat 2002? the political parties reaped stupandeous benefits from these and continue to do so. who loses everyday in maharashtra where a politics of buffonery and hooliganism has unfolded in a manner never seen before. nothing wrong in promoting local culture and language infact it should be done, but a state will continue to be a subset of its country and this cannot or rather should not be changed. A majority of mumbai taxi drivers and dabbawallas are migrants, attacking them may scare them away to their native state but then again it will be left for the aam junta to suffer. one thing which continues to baffle is these attacks breesing on racism are against only those who are in a vulnerable position. why aren't these attacks aimed at migrant businessmen who have struck gold in mumbai, why aren't they asked to move their industries to to their own state.
Probably the greatest paradox is that The shiv sena declared in a way only the sena can that australian players would not be allowed to play in mumbai because of racist attacks on indians in australia. the sena boasted that it was taking an indian cause. this was hillarious, they themselves continue to propagate violence for state to state migrants but expect other countries to tolerate country to country migrants. needless to say they really dont the direction in which they are headed. but essentially it is for the people to understand that this dividive politics is of no use for them and it is heartening to see the vote share of sena dwindling but at the same time the vote share of MNS has increased. Well india is a country of paradox.
Rahul Gandhi recently commented that he wont allow attacks on north indians in maha. well Mr. Gandhi must have awaken from a deep slumber coz as far as memory goes he chose to keep mum when the Mns goons went on attacking spree not a long while back. it does not require rocket science to understand that the pending assembly election in bihar this year has prompted the crowned prince of india to come out in defence of the migrants in mumbai.
india being a democracy gives the public the power to create a govt which is free from the heavy baggage of religion, region, caste and creed. though it may seem a far cry from practical life to such a govt but we could move as nearer to perfection as we can let us hope that the new decade will catapault india not only among the greatest economy but also a great democracy which a great country like india truly deserves.