Our genetic makeup hides a large part of our fate. General belief is that the time and place of our birth will strongly impact what becomes of us in later life. "Kismet" is a word that is understood worldwide . People of the Indian subcontinent are genetically disposed to getting hit by diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. That is " Kismet". Not everybody gets it though! Some don't and some make sure that they take active measures not to get struck. "Kismet "exists but its effects can be and are being proactively modified by individuals every day.
Nations of the Indian subcontinent are similar though with one significant difference . They can not help being born at the place and time they were born and hence have to carry the burden of their " Kismet" with them. Unfortunately they have made feeble efforts to modify their fate that their genetic make up has handed them . They have no prevention or a treatment in place and they are getting struck with one chronic disease after another. Which sadly is hustling them to a terminal stage.
India is a glaring example; not only because it is the mother ship of all other nations around it, but also the fact that a large part of the blame for setting bad precedents must lie at her door. Right at the birth of an independent nation , India meekly surrendered to the separatist "theory of Pakistan". What ever that did to Pakistan is a different story but that is the seed which later became a million headed hydra. If Muslims are a separate nation, why not Sikhs; why not Baluchi's ; why not this and why not that. Partition was the early warning that there is a demon lurking in the DNA. Nothing really was done.
Almost immediately we had Kashmir asking for separation on the same principle we separated pakistan. It did not happen and that issue has become an uncurable cancer . Further down from kashmir. Himachal and Haryana wanted to go separate ways from Punjab on the basis of Pahari and hindi speaking areas . This was allowed but a natural side effect of this was that remaining Punjab went radical Punjabi ; eventually asking for "khalistan". There were other contributing factors too but similar story got repeated in west when Gujrat was carved from Bombay and In south Madras was divided. In the east; bengal got divided too! This disease has marched on and on and now people want Bodoland, Gorkhaland, Telangana, Vidharbh........ It has already produced Chattisgarh, Uttrakhand etc. There is no knowing how many other new demands there could be by the time you finish reading this. Why is no one demanding "India"?
Another kind of inherited disease was poverty, illiteracy, imbalanced progress and even complete absence of it. So far the report card shows a D in these areas. A huge section of the population has no access to decent education, health care and misplaced priorities in Industrialization means that their means of livelihood are threatened as well. How can we ignore these telltale signs and still hope to remain healthy. How can we imagine that people who have no stake in the nation and its progress will remain loyal.
We keep harping on how Britishers engaged in Divide and rule policy to keep us subjugated yet we continue to divide each other and then subdivide into smaller and smaller pockets; just to protect our hold on an ever diminishing power base. Mayawati has no concern about someone in Manipur but she is keen to have a statue of "Dalit" mahapurush in Mainpuri. Her own statue prominent among them.All to protect her power base. Whether it divides the society further is not her problem. What is a "dalit" mahapurush anyway ? Either one is a Mahapurush or one is not. bala Saheb wants only Marathi speaking people to live in Mumbai! Where is this kind of Madness going to land us?
As if Islamic terrorism was not enough of a problem ; India has allowed another symptom of Maoist menace to take on gargantuan proportions. Primarily by shutting its eyes to their anti national activities since the government is formed with the help of Maoist sympathizers; both in center and in many states. Also the fact that the red terror grows in the poorest regions and regions which have been untouched by progress could not have gone unnoticed by the policy makers. Why nothing was done to make people of such region feel that we are concerned about their welfare and they are included in Shining India? No one has an answer. Now the only talk is whether the state should use Air force to bomb these Red terrorists! All of them are our citizens. Maoist leaders only want their cadre to keep confronting the society rather than find an amicable way forward . Anything that will protect their hold on their little piece of power.Amazing and Sad! How did we reach this place in 60 Years?
Similar stories in abound in Nepal where Maoist are creating a bigger havoc. There are other agitations and divisions too. Madeshi and non Madeshi divison is just one of them. Srilanka's Tamil and Sinhala divide is too well documented and has already taken a huge toll . So far nobody seems to have learnt much from it. Bangladesh has serious fault line centered around both begums on one hand and Army on the other hand. In between Chakma and other smaller groups have continued to cry foul. Pakistan has already seen a major division and from time to time voices are raised for independent Sindhu Desh: Pakhtunistan; Baluchistan and even Mohajaristan. Pakistan army has already used heavy artillary and air power against citizens. Even in the biggest province of Punjab a serious effort is afoot to carve out a Saraiki province. Divide, separate and hold onto your little piece is the mantra.
All these divisions serve only one purpose : keep people divided so that power and resources can be exploited for the benefit of a chosen few. What one must realize that working together works. One and one makes eleven. If we continue to work against each other we will finally wipe each other out sooner than you think. If we do not share we'll have nothing left to share. Storm is gathering at our shores . What preparations are we making?
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