Whose Line is it anyway?

Past few days I have seen the Modi-Niteesh Saga Going out of proportion! Is it good or bad for the country? Come on you cant say if it s good for Bihar if Niteesh was with congress or BJP. He has done a great job there. But I want to look at the picture hidden. The lines drawn out between the different linguistic regions. In other words the 28 states our mighty country has been divided into. In the past 60 yrs we have seen many new states formed and many ethnic groups fighting for the creation of new ones. So what motivates them?

I have followed the telengana issue very closely! I have few frds from Andhra also. From what I have heard the smoke screen of development being neglected is partially true. But for me it seems that a selfish politician is trying to make his ends meet. But over the course of time the boundaries that we created to reduce the administrative problems and make life easier has resulted in creating more non sense than we had ever imagined.
Here is a counter point of a supporter of GORKHALAND that I lifted from the comments section of another blog :
"It is easy 2 say when someone is not involved in it, but if one looks through our perspective then u shall actually realize why such demand?u know what, we are not been treated as indian,whenever some other sees they believe that we r from nepal.it hurts badly,after so much of sacrifices given 2 our homeland still they belive we r outsider.we want our identity thats it.if madras regiment can hve chennai,punjab regiment can have punjab,assam regiment can have assam,then why not gorkha regiment shall have gorkhaland.we r not saying that we shall get dived frm indian,we just want our own room in such a big land."

He does have a valid point. But just becas they have a separate state means they wont be racially discriminated? I dont know. For all the peace and tranquility the Indian mind possesses, we are fundamentally racists. Not always in the wrong sense! We jovially keep nick names like Chinki, gult, kariaya etc. It dosent mean that we hate them. It just shows that we have fundamental seeds of racism in our mind. Its a deep rooted social apathy in our country.

Britishers were affirmative when they left India that it would never prosper as it is just a motley of different countries that were just connected by a petty string of being independent. To certain extent that could have been true but for the primitive Indian Legislators and in particular Sardar Vallabhai Patel. A very nice movie scene comes to my mind. Once hero who s a tamilian goes to Australia and he knows zilch English. For make the immigration easier and basically to find a translator he goes to the Indian embassy where the Indian officer is in no better condition as he s a sadar but a Srilankan officer jumps to his rescue. The irony in the above situation evokes quite a bit of laughter.

This situation highlights the question that bugs most of us. Would the Indian subcontinent prospered better if we India had been divided into 20 different countries? Its a rhetoric question that we cant answer but only speculate. Can we compromise on the concept of Unity in Diversity the rudiment foundation on which our federal system has been built! Having one unified state is is out of question as it would surely have Been a disaster. Through out the history able administrators like akbar, Alluddin Khilji were not able to do that. We have succesfully completed 62 years of Indian Federal system. There is only one inference! what ever system we are having has the capacity to sustain itself. So better not mess with it. Concentrate on bringing change at the grass roots. Thats a topic for another day.

So have these boundaries created divisions among the people? I have completed my under graduation of one of the most culturally and linguistically vibrant places and its my humble opinion that all the division noises is utter crap. Yes, accepted that we would like to have people who can speak our language with us. But this has not stopped the students from having a healthy interaction and work for mutual as well as individual benefit. The real education provided to the illiterate will develop tolerance in the minds of the people. If the entire nation has the cultural mix Bombay.. oops Mumbai has, the boundaries will serve the purpose of administration alone and we would be asking "WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY???"