With the so much diversity in India in terms of language,culture ,food havit ,It is very difficult for every Indian to call himself or herself Indian rather they call them Bengali,tamils,telegu,karnard,bihari,bhaia,panjabi and so on and as a result all the regional parties based on cast ,creed ,language take the advantage and try to divide people of India on regional feeling and encourage fighting amongst themself .Basically we are all Indians ist and we should call ourself as per our monther tongue at 2nd instance .We should start now itself from school levels so that we should start calling Indian at least after 15 years .India is developing on rapid space and by 2020 ,we shall be considered as largest democratic with 300 etrhinic language people superpower in the world .I dream for the day
RE:INDIAN 1st
by Arun Joshi on Aug 19, 2008 02:32 PM Permalink
The political borders have become very rigid in this century. Languages, attire, food, spiritual and religious beliefs,means of making both ends meets,geography, weather dont change suddenly after a political boundary line. They show a gradual pattern. Such kind of diversity pattern is inherent to nature. Most people fail appreciate this fact. It is possible that large countries face this diversity problem more. Behind every political cause, there are a lot many genuine people and a lot many with selfish interests. Before making a comment on it, we should make sure that we are able to at least appreciate the genuine part of it. I will tell a example - A priest in Chennai Temple told me that a Tamil King ruled entire east- upto Indonesia and spread vedas there. A priest in Hindu temple of Indonesia told me that Vedas were written there, and people of Java had no intension of having political control of India but of only spreading Vedas. He said, in the process, Indians took off vedas, upnishadas, sanskrit from them and claim to be their own. You will find many arguments and evidences on both sides. There are extreme views in this world, our view should be balanced. The moment we say "people of northeast are different", it makes "dil tod diya" case. Mentioning that their race is different is a factual statement. These two races have lived together peacefully for thousands of years. I too am in favor of that.
