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Friday, December 18, 2009

The hues and cries:

Often misled by fact that every individual is different and comprises of different proportions of the essence of humanity, people do tend to hate each other.A country hating other one is primarily the most common one and is a feeling which is mostly cultivated and propagated by the virtue of the leaders they mostly look upon or follow.
My country INDIA is an weird example how derogatory humanism and being an human be.No matter how sacred life a person has led,there are people who a mere mention of his name(mostly the surname),his native place,complexion and accent tend to make a pre-conceived notion.And if you are an immigrant and represent from an area which is economically different or speak a different language,the notion is mostly negative one.
I have travelled across the length and breadth of the country and find is really amazing about how stupid my country men's geography is.My state which was carved out of a bigger state some ages back is still unknown to most of the people.And by the people i mean ones who hold bachelor's degree and live in a cosmopolitan culture.No matter the country's cricket team caption belongs to my state,still people seem to be unaware of its mere existence.No, am not hurt if people who represent the top 10% of highly educated ones have a poor geography,It's just that my individuality seems to get a whip.Apart from mentioning the name of my state,i have to give references too.
Long back when the state was created, it made no difference to us.My city is one of the most developed ones in the state and these developments do not even bother the people living in there as they are more concerned about the Steel Plant and its production.I was in class 10th when the partition happened.I don't remember anything special happening except watching the live broadcast of the swearing in ceremony on the national television for the new state.
9 years down the lane, when i have migrated out of the city to pursue my career i notice no changes when i travel back to my place once in 6-8 months.Except the vehicle number plates,(changed from BR to JH) and names of the state at all govt. installations(seems like someone has pressed Ctrl+F and used replace tab to change all Bihar texts to that of Jharkhand :))Oh,i forgot that some of the changes which took was L.N.Mittal ,the steel baron finally opting to move out of the state as he ran out of his patience to get the land which was promised to him some 5-6 years back.Even Bhushan steel made a U turn after its engineers were paraded around a village which charcoal painted faces.
The point which still remains is that the poor remains poor and the rich ones continue to be same.The only people to have benefited are ones of the likes of Madhu Koda who accumulated money to a tune Rs 1500 crores in his short stint as the CM of the state.Wow, this is what the politicians term as development,What they mean is their development ,not the state's.And people (both illiterate and educated illiterate) fail to understand the fact.
Am an immigrant in the state now which faces a similar situation and the common people is facing the brunt of a few people(politicians) vested interests.Am not pretty sure but 5-6 down the year when i visit my same underdeveloped state and tell people that i work in Telangana, am sure people will give a similar expression which i get here when i mention that am from Jharkhand.
Am not a preacher,neither a intellectual and nor a patriot.I deal in facts and statistics.I would be happiest person on the world if the newly formed state follow the path of development,but we all know what the truth is,the bitter truth.Somehow people know about the obvious future but are trying to evade it and making the future for themselves and their coming generations a pale one.Well..!! we are all adult and have a right to decide...!! and this is how we indian's decide..!!

1 comment:

priyanka said...

I totally agree with your viewpoints and residing in a place like Mumbai, where people like the Thackerays use the hatred against the North Indians as their political sword, I sometimes tend to share the same hatred for them. Anyways, it's sometimes really embarrassing or rather anger-inducing when the ignorant people in my office ask that does the people of my state keep weapons and guns for their safety and are their any roads in my native or not. Poor people, many even fail to know that it has the very famous Steel Plant, which is mentioned in most of the 4th class Geography books.
But, I won't only blame people for such a notion, because the media and the corrupt politicians have played a bigger role in portraying the states of Bihar and Jharkhand as such. When the news channels will only show about the negatives of the state, how will the others know about the positives, when only Shibu Soren and Madhu Koda are highlighted, how can the others know about the Steel Plant and the wonderful education system in the state that has more number of IIT and IAS top rankers as compared to most of the other states.