Will India be the next USSR?

So many states want to break away from their parent state on grounds ranging from the type of language they speak to administrative inefficiency. Some of these demands may exist for many decades, but still, these are demands of creating a new identity within the nation.

Then there are so many political parties that are making their presence felt, primarily due to their son-of-the-soil policies.

There are few factions that want portions carved out from multiple states to form a new entity.

Some people even want states to be formed on the basis of the caste of the population!

And of course, we have the perennial problem in few states that want to break away from the nation itself.

The Government of India, in the last decade and more, has been formed by regional political parties. These parties have all come into existence pursuing any one of the items listed above.

If this trend of a coalition Government continues (I don't see anything else happening) for another decade, it would, at some point in time, be forced to accede to most of these requests.

I feel we would end up in a situation like in USSR where multiple Republics came under a single banner called USSR. And as recorded in history, USSR crumbled under its internal strife and economic issues to become multiple independent nations.

God forbid I live to experience the ignominy of having to take a visa to go from Chennai to Bangalore!

Random Observation # 044: The war on Mumbai

Like countless millions across the country and outside, I too have been hooked up on to the TV set from yesterday, following the developments in 'The war on Mumbai'.

My heart goes out to those brave souls who are flushing out the terrorists from the face of this planet and those souls who have perished in this effort.

I have had the following questions cross my mind at various times in these 2 days:
1. Will this ever stop?
2. Is there any proof of terrorism really winning?
3. When will our authorities learn their lesson?
4. Will the politicians ever rise above vote bank politics?
5. Should the media have been allowed to telecast the positions of commandos at various locations?
6. Why was the PM’s address to the nation so hollow?
7. Why is the National Tele Media so obsessed with this development that they have chosen to completely ignore other things happening in the country – like the death of a former Prime Minister (not that I like him, but he was after all an elected PM) and the really bad situation that Tamil Nadu is in, after the impact of Cyclone Nisha?
8. And even in this current episode, why is the same media focusing only on the LIVE events and is not talking much about the incidents at the Railway Stations and Hospitals? Most of the victims were actually out there. Clearly ‘Star Hotel with elite socialites and Foreigners under attack’ has scored heavily over ‘Ordinary citizens shot dead randomly at a public place’. Fie on you all News Channels.
9. Are the likes of Arundathi Roy going to raise the idiotic Human Rights Violation angle and say that the commandos should have offered candies to the terrorists?

There are a lot more questions but am unable to get any coherent thoughts to document them.

It may sound jingoistic, but I really liked the way the Home Minister of Maharashtra ended his press conference with “Bhaarat Mata ki Jai”।

जय हिंद। भारत माता की जय।