Divided we Fall

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, therefore i had been avoiding getting into political comments, but it has dawned on me that it is not necessary to be a diplomat, a bureaucrat or a politician or a journalist to comment on something, i can comment as a citizen too.

What i have decided to write about today has long vanished from the news, even those who were agitating for and against it, have consigned it to oblivion.

The ideas expressed in this blog are also not entirely my own, they are slightly abridged, but i have a birth right for plagiarism here.

The boundaries of the various countries on this planet keep changing, some innocent people will attribute it to the Alfred Wegner's theory of Continental drift but most of the time its a reflection of the changing ideologies of the nations and its political masters. The disintegration of the USSR is one such instance. Formation of Bangladesh, ramification of North and South Korea just augment this fact further.

Division is therefore a constant and perpetual process, but all nations don't succumb to it - China is one such nation. It has 34 states, numerous languages and one national language. Taiwan is not a part of China ( courtesy American Diplomacy), but China considers it also to be its integral part. It doesn't hesitate to call arunachal Pradesh its part, controls a large section of PoK, so it would be erroneous to say that all nations disintegrate.

Its however safe to say that those nations who citizens and politicians have a strong political will and whose allegiance to their country is uncompromising are not subject to disintegration. External powers are also successful only when the internal disturbances allow them to be so.

I am not going into the external disturbances here. When ones own house is in disorder its hasty and inappropriate to comment on the neighbors.

Division when voluntarily done, for the administrative convenience without external pressure is sagacious. But where it is imperious then it is not necessarily in national interest. In India any division; be it that of the country, states or district has never been in national interest.
The division of the country was a brain child of British Diplomacy, but there was a significant section of Indians for whom religion came first before country, and unity was definitely not cardinal.

The formation of one state on the basis of language was enough to stir the hornet's nest, and more states were carved on the basis of language. Later more states were formed on regionalism : Uttarakhand, chattisgarh and jharkhand.
The irony is the state that was formed on the basis of of language now wants to separate state for development..wow !!!
We never learn from History, the moment we agreed for creation of Telangana we yet again dug our own grave; Maharashtra wants Vidarbh, UP wants bundelkhand and harit Pradesh even the peaceful state of Rajasthan wants a Maru Pradesh. Best was when J& K asked for three separate states; as if it needed any more division.
If it was only aimed at development then it would not have been a political issue. Here i am not even getting into the filth of Naxalite influence or the religious factors that govern the divisive feelings.

We are faced with a similar situation at the district level: Mallapuram in Kerala was made a separate district on account of it being a muslim Majority district, ditto for the Mewat district in Haryana.
If Harit pradesh is carved out of UP we will have the first state in India that would be a Muslim majority one; yeah thats all we need - a mini pakistan.

Yesterday i was blaming the journalists but we have all gotten the priorites wrong; we have an inverse pyramind of priorities, I me Myself first, Voter first, my family first, my religion, my caste and to heck with the country.

For national integration the thought - words and actions of its citizens should be alike , as the Ved says:
Sam gachhadhwam, sam vadadhwam sam vo manaansi jaanaatam :
Meet together, talk together, let your minds apprehend alike.


Aufwiedersehen
Suyasha


PS: yesterday someone told me "blog on books was predictable... Surprise me". i tried...