Unity (?!) In Diversity

Unity (?!) In Diversity

We Indians celebrated our 60^th independence recently with great pride. We always are proud about our diversity in culture that exists in our country and we portray this as our biggest strength to other countries by saying that we are always united. But the recent happenings started raising doubts about our unity.

The latest riots against north Indian people living in Maharastra are a main threat to our unity. A political leader is openly giving statements that north Indians should not live in their state and get any employment benefits. He is coming out with one statement daily against other state people living in Maharastra and so people are under threat. He quotes that other state people take away the employment of their state. Due to this many people have been attacked cruelly and some have been sent out. Today’s news paper tells that north Indian people who celebrated holi in Mumbai beach were beaten. Where has the unity gone?

Another incident which shocked nation is the killing of Hindi speaking people by some terrorist group in Manipur state. Voices have been raised in Manipur saying that their state should not have any other people. The incident has been condemned by all but no terrorist has taken responsibility for this till now. But a strong check has to be kept for this.

Every time when cauvery water issue comes to lime light, the tamilians living in Karnataka will start praying for their security. A major attack has happened to Tamilians in 1980s and many escaped from the state leaving all their properties. This continues till now, whenever the court gives any statement regarding the water problem.

We cannot generalize these issues by blaming that particular state or entire population of that state I have mentioned. There are some 10% - 15% of people who make business by raising this problem. Rest 90% is true Indians who love their nation and helping to make India a super power.

What is the reason for all this?

Division of States based on language.

The division of Indian states based on the language is the main reason for this problem. The language difference among people makes them to think for themselves. But it’s almost more than half a century we started ruling ourselves but we can’t re create the divisions now. But we can reduce this in future by nationalizing various resources like rivers, employment opportunities. We should also stop dividing the nation furthermore based on language. There are some voices coming in Andhra Pradesh to form a new state called “Telugana” based on language and it should be stopped.

Our Leaders have fought hard with British as a single group to give us independence and we are enjoying the result now. We should not spoil their dreams and freedom they gave us. Let’s try to stop this kind of slogans which divide people and concentrate on making India a super power.

JAI HIND