Two states of Water…
India, a country of diversity. That is what we have been taught by our elders. Few white haired grand elders added that India is a perfect example of unity in diversity. Like any other kid in the world, we believed in what we taught. When time passes, many things that are present in and around us change. Like the way we look the world, people etc., In a deeper view, till the age of 15, a lady who resides next to our home will be an aunt or ma’am or sister or some one to us. After crossing 15, the same lady still remains as an aunt or ma’am or sister. But an instinct inside out mind says that she is your aunt, but a LADY. This applies for everyone and everything.
Back to my India’s diversity. Things have changed when we grown up. Though our presidents and prime ministers and few more dignified high profile leaders who represents india for rest of the world tell us during every republic and independence day that “India feels proud that it still remains united in the diversity”, but some day to day happenings in the country strikes our mind that “are we really united?”
I can list out some major incidents that took place in the past 10 months which proves that we Indians are marathis, Hindus, Muslims, tamils, kannads but not indians.
Violence by the name of religion has been taking place for the past twenty years and now I guess the law breakers are fed up with religional violence. Now they took up the sword for regional violance which swings throughout the day, throughout the week.
In the north, it is religion and in the south, it is regional. As many of us know the “close” relationship with India and Pakistan and about the river sindh. The river sindh originates in Pakistan and flows into Punjab, a state belongs to India. Pakistan, treated as all time enemy of India, has never put a constraint or barrier to india for the river sind to flow into india. It flows freely from pak to india.
In the south, “Cauvery”, a very famous issue between the states tamilnadu and karnataka. Its a past news. Now the new fire is for the issue of “hogenakkal water project”. A neighborhood state, for his fellow indian brothers, is not providing the elixir of life, the water. They went “crazy” started destroying tamilnadu buses, Tamil people’s offices and so on. As all the media in India elaborated it on this issue, I just end up with the question… “where is the unity? I can only see diversity…”
