Saturday 5 November 2011

Is India on the Road to Disintegration



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I was born in a country which today has a population of over 1.2 billion people who speak more than 415 active languages among them. These very people have followed almost every possible religion and belief there is and for the larger part of my life I have genuinely felt lucky for being part of such magnificent diversity. It wasn't just the luck factor but also the education I received that ingrained in me that this diversity is what makes India so unique, so strong.

But perhaps for the first time in my life I am forced to re evaluate the very concept of "Unity in Diversity" just like the way Government re evaluates its foreign policy. I often get this unnerving feeling that our country is moving in a direction which has disintegration written all over it. What seemed our strengths once have started becoming our weaknesses and the situation is alarming. Whether it is religion, region, dialect, caste or creed, I find India getting choked with divisions and subdivisions that has made our live utterly complicated and profoundly intolerant. One may feel that I am over reacting or may be acting as a paranoid but that's just how I feel right now.

As if the traditional hatred between Hindus and Muslims was not enough, the assaults on Sikhs and Christians has added another dimension to the religious intolerance saga. It was 29 th of April 2007 when a Christian pastor, Walter Masih was brutally assaulted by a group of Vishwa Hindu Parishad activists in Rajasthan, as I watched the news in complete horror and disgust. I still remember the day when Graham Steins, an Australian missionary was burnt alive in his van while he was sleeping with his two sons in Orissa. Forget religion, Region has become another contentious issue to deal with. Maharashtrians want Maharashtra only for themselves and have shown increasing intolerance towards people of other states especially of UP and Bihar. It is not a secret that Kashmir and Assam want total independence from India and Maoists have plans to throw away the Indian state by 2050.

I have not even dared to talk about the various castes and sub castes that have plagued our lives from times immemorial. Whether Hindus or Muslims or any other religion, a sharp division is evident on the basis of one's birth, ancestral descent and what not. What bothers me to the core is that everyone is so concerned in being of a particular caste, a particular state, a particular religion that no one is concerned about being an Indian. Where ever I go I find Punjabis, Biharis, Gujratis, Tamilians, Rajasthanis etc but Hindustani nahin milte.(don't find Indians).

What is more frustrating is that these inefficiencies of our system are being exploited by various political parties and their leaders to further their petty interests. For if that would not have been the case, activists of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena with the support of their leader would not have been able to assault innocent people who had come to take the Railway entrance exam in Mumbai and activists of Vishwa Hindu Parishad would not have been able to beat up Walter Masih and still be Scot free. I am still not buying the argument that our Central and State leadership cannot exert enough pressure to stop Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Mr Raj Thackeray from declaring to the whole world that Maharashtra is for maharashtrians only when article 19 of the Indian constitution expressly states that all citizens have a fundamental right to reside and settle in any part of the territory of India.

I wonder - Is Mr Raj Thackeray above the Indian Constitution?

Even the so called fundamental right to speech is not free after all. It is no big secret that how difficult and downright dangerous it is to express ones opinion freely. It is especially the case when you are doing it against someone powerful and politically well connected. Who knows when you have 100 men ransacking your house and threatening your family. When someone like Shahrukh Khan could land into a controversy for expressing his opinion on the participation of Pakistani players in IPL and Sachin Tendulkar is openly bashed in the media for proclaiming that Mumbai is for all, I wonder how much guts would the common man need to speak his mind.

The time has come when we, as a nation of 1.2 billion people must raise our voice in protest against all such forces that put their region, religion and other selfish interests before the larger interests of the country. The time has come when just like the very character of our country, we unite and not let anti national forces divide us in the name of region, religion, caste and creed. If we fail now it would not be long when 1947 would repeat itself all over again.Find suitable vaishyapariwar brides and grooms from around the India.Vaishyajeevansathi create a platform where singles can meet other singles from their community.

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