India has unity in diversity - we are land of many cultures, religions, languages. It takes just few words for anyone to spread hatred among these diversities. This I guess is the disadvantage of being a diversed nation.
India has been facing these problems for a long time, may be from the day India was born. Few recent cases that come to mind are...
Anti sikh riots Godhra case Post Godhra riots omnipresent Hindu-muslim riots Anti north-Indian remarks by MNS Tamil-Kannadiga problems
No government, no judiciary and no leader can solve these problems. Few leaders in fact can support the activities to divide people for vote politics.
Its the onus on people of our country to ignore such sparks and be restrained from these vote politics otherwise it will get tough to live in India among this chaos.
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by Perv Sharma on Apr 02, 2008 03:45 AM Permalink
U can remember small things - but the fact that more than a Million Kashmiri Hindus became Refugees in a Hindu Majority Country Hindustan due to the Muslims in Kashmir doesn't HIT U - Can U draw the MAP of INDIA :)
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by Easwar Moorthi on Apr 02, 2008 04:37 AM Permalink
People...Do we know history well? Tamils have been living in Bangalore for ages ..even before Karantaka was born.....Just becuase bangalore was include part of karnataka....why the tamils living there have to live like they are outsiders?
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by Anand C on Apr 02, 2008 02:46 AM Permalink
What an idiot you are!! Are you living in a despotic governed country or what!! Its our country and we have a right to work anywhere!! Dont people from North work in Bangalore. Guess people with your kind of thinking only are causing problem in Bombay too.
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by Anand C on Apr 02, 2008 03:10 AM Permalink
Suraj, You definitely have an interesting point. If all of us think the same way, then we have to go to to the pre 1947 princely state concept only. The concept of a free citizen in a free country would be completely lost. About the white collar and brown collar comparison, i am sure that is like something unrelated. Remember even an Adobe CEO was not spared. So remember a mob does not bother about white collar or a brown collar, when they have to take out their failures and frustrations at somebody, in the name of securing land back for their bretheren. Ultimately who gets hit.. people who are known to you and me for such shallow arguments propounded by somebody like you. Remember its a free country, and you also get the same chance to try anywhere you want. So this is not an favour dolloped just to somebody from a particular state.
I know it is a free country and a country which has a law and order apparatus. If you do find yourself in an ugly situation (the colour of your collar notwithstanding), you can always seek help from the law!
Remember what Amitabh said about this last week?
My contention is that if you want to fight for your constitutional rights, rediff is not the place to waste your energy!
And if all that fails and you manage to have any semblance of spine, you can respond in kind to any attack or assault in the name of self-defense!
But the point still remains the same. If you can do this outside your state or city, why not in your own backyard??
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by Golden Word on Apr 02, 2008 02:50 AM Permalink
Suraj,
You sound like a stupid. So let that being the case Tamilnadu can use atomic power from Kalpakkam, from koodankulam etc etc. So do the IITs, IIMs and IISc offer admissions for people from the same state. You can imagine the quality of these institutions then. The same way let Karnataka use whatever it does in their soil. Why then "Unity in Diversity" concept. Why don't you ask all kannadigas to come back and live in Karnataka? You sound so childish. In fact, your thoughts can be very poisonous.
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by Suraj Sinha on Apr 02, 2008 02:59 AM Permalink
Golden Word,
I am not "a stupid" but you definitely are a moron!
I am not saying don't migrate. I am saying don't complain about bad treatment you experience when you couldn't do the same in your own state!
You are looking at this from the white-collar point-of-view.
When was the last time you heard about a well-heeled professional face any adverse treatment on the streets of any city because of his native status?
Even in Banglore, if things get out of hand do you really think it will affect well-to-do professionals?
I am talking of the very poor who are driven out because nobody cares enough to fight the apathy and corruption in their own states!!
Yes! I would love to ask the Kannadigas to comeback to their state. But would give up your home in Karnataka to accomodate them?
Why blame the Kannadigas if you people couldn't built the institutes and infrastructure like they did in your states?
When your politicians cheated and looted you, you sat with your thumbs up your behind and now you want to fight for lofty ideals like "Unity in Diversity" in other states?!
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by Easwar Moorthi on Apr 02, 2008 04:36 AM Permalink
People...Do we know history well? Tamils have been living in Bangalore for ages ..even before Karantaka was born.....Just becuase bangalore was include part of karnataka....why the tamils living there have to live like they are outsiders?
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by Moorthy Nataraj on Apr 02, 2008 05:35 AM Permalink
Suraj, You are definitely half baked idiot, typing something here just for the sake of an argument.
Why the hell are you thinking like your shd not go out of your state, when you are in one country. You are thoughts are definitely idiotic, and you often forget that India is one country all the citizens are equal.
