State In The Making
History has a way of repeating it self, but who will advice
the opportunists, the misguided and oppressed? There was a time when I could
rattle of the 25 states and capitals with ease, Today I have to rely on Google
to tell me what the exact count is. Its 28 for now, and Telangana would be the
29th State, with new proposals coming up for around 20 more,
starting the pun - “The United
states of India”
I have a few colleagues from the state and I happened to ask
their opinion and they were passionately for it. When asked for the reason it
was all too familiar, land grab, lost opportunities for the locals, no
development etc, local resources moved to outside regions etc. They are
justified in its demand and hope in the long run they get what they fought for.
The only thing that worries me though is whether the Pros out weigh the Cons.
In this country we are everything first but Indians, we have
states asking people of other states to leave. Water disputes, Power disputes,
land disputes. Its like the phenomenon of Joint families being replaced by
Nuclear family on the macro level.
Most of which is due to selfish needs who have control and
shortsightedness.
Around 500 years ago the Indian subcontinent was a similar
situation with infighting amongst the various kingdoms and regions, which
allowed a country with, not even half our size rule for over 400 years. And it
looks like we are going in that direction once more. So all you may know we’d
be called – The United States of Bhutan!
