the article seems to reveal a man with a good vision and independent thoughts but at the end it seems that he is a bit parochial. Ofcourse this is not surprising. I am from Bengal but stayed for a long time in South India especially Bangalore. I studied as well as worked in south India. I have visited all the capital cities of the four south Indian states and many other places in the south. From my persomal experience what i have found that except Hyderabad/Andhra Pradesh , people of almost all the other south Indian states are parochial and very regional minded. Though the people of the south are far more educated and better behaved and polite than the people of the north(of the Hindi- speaking belt) their attitudes make people feel that they are different.
Wish the bongs in Kolkata learn something from this. In Kolkata , Bengali has become almost the least spoken language in public places. Its Hindi, Marwari and Bhojpuri etc mostly spoken threatening the cultural existence of the Bengali language in Kolkata. The official language in Esplanade , the city's centre is Hindi. This is alarming and threatening. Kolkatans should revive its Bengali speaking culure but still maintaining/retaining its identity as a cosmopolitian city.
