Apolitical dissection of divisive politics!

One of the prominent thinkers of our times, Marx, had said that it is matter which influences the mind and reverse is not true. This attracted a lot of criticism from all over the world as almost all the religions of the world preaches that mind is above all and mind only can influence the matter and hence the theory that social structure is nothing but the result of economic structure was discarded.

In our country that is India we hear some agitations are going on for some separate states all the time. To attract the eye balls, bandh and hartals are organised and consequently some deaths and blood shed takes place, political gimmicks are made and a short span of truce is all we get.

It hurts, really hurts hard to see that parts of our country, which is otherwise regarded as Maa, can't stay in harmony.

Now if it really hurts then what is the way out of this sticky situation? Have you ever asked this question to yourselves ? If no, then believe me doom day is not far and if yes, then let me share something with you.

I tried to find the reason behind such mass agitations in my own simple way: that is to ask persons from different social strata in three states, please don't ask me to name them as it will jaundice your eyes and we need to stay impartial, one which has suffered the partition, one where agitation is going on and one which is a party to fierce inter-state dispute. Age group wise it includes persons from 25 to 55, income wise from Rs.12000 to Rs.60000 pm and education wise from 10th standard pass to Graduate one.

These are the Questions and Answers:

Ques: Sir! Do you support the separate state agitation?(Age-40, Income- 15000, Ed- 10th std pass)

Ans: Yes! If we have our own state we will get some good infrastructure, drinking water, schools, universities and jobs.

Ques: I think govt. has not got the adequate resources(revenues) to do so?

Ans: No, whatever they get should be spent  without any bias. See such and such part have better facilities and we don't have.

Ques: Who told you?

Ans: I know, Political parties are telling that.

Ques: Sir! Do you support the separate state agitation?(Age-55, Income- 30000, Ed- 12th std. pass)

Ans: We people keep mum on this issue as they will kill for adverse opinion.

Ques: Who?

Ans: Men from political parties.

Ques: Don't you think that it will help for development?

Ans: What development? All are busy in loot, no one cares for us, name will change not the politicians.

Ques: Sir! Do you support the separate state agitation?(Age-40, Income-45000, Ed- Graduate)

Ans: Rubbish! these politicians don't have any work to do, they only know how to earn bread by be-fooling the mass. A gentleman has got the fate to suffer.

Then I told one of my friends that I think Govt. should grant the smaller states as the habitants wish and the reply was: Shut up! you will spoil all the sincere works of our great Sardar Ballav Bhai Patel who unified more than 600 smaller king-ruled states to consolidate the Republic of India.

Now there are some questions which were asked to the inhabitants of the state created a decade ago:

Ques: Sir! do you feel that the new state has done some good to its inhabitants? (Employed young man of about 30 years of age)?

Ans: Name changes, not the mentality, they (leaders) are busy with loot and booty. No better roads, no education, no jobs, no sanitation only one thing is prevailing that is GHOTALA(scam).

Fortunately my room-mate(working in a multinational company recently returned from US after a job assignment of three years) is from one of the mother states that were divided in two about a decade ago so I asked him about his opinion and he replied that it was told that after the division the mother state will have lesser burden on the exchequer and hence there will be better infrastructure but 10 years down the lane I don't find any changes except some bigger parks with mammoth statue, however I noticed some malls also but don't think it has anything to do with the decade old partition of the state.

There are many other questions which i discussed with my co-patriot friends not fit for mentioning it here but one particular question and its answer from one of my bosses (almost 60 years old from a non-hindi speaking state) is worth mentioning here:

Ques: Why does this anti-hindi stand exist whereas we find not many are against speaking it as a colloquial language for communication within our otherwise multilingual motherland ?

Ans: Dear Son! such stands are made to milch the political interests. I come from a poor family of distant village. There exists only Govt. schools which are used for political gimmicks in the name of language and so Hindi is not taught there but all the politicians have there children admitted in posh Public Schools where their children learn Hindi language and get better opportunity to serve in almost any where in India after getting a job in private sector companies. They have learnt this divide and rule policy from the English rulers and they actually want to rule us they are not harbingers but demons.

However i got to meet some other people who opined that Hindi speaking culture is backward in comparison of non-hindi speaking culture so its better to avoid it, but unfortunately they never explained- how?

Don't know how one can draw any conclusion from the above account but I see it as the proof of the fact that nothing but poverty and hence desperation and hard-bearing callous political environment make available the required be-fooled mass to support the baseless divisive politics in India. So the only solution to it is to eradicate the poverty and illiteracy and it need hands and not the funds of the government to eradicate something. It is poetic but I believe that a Bhartendu Harishchadra or a Subramanaya Bharathi always precede a Bhagat Singh or Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar.