The question used to be Political , some thought it was economic but now I am sure this has become hilarious .The last few days has been tragic to the point where it became dubious and then laughable .Poor Bodos are killing the very poor Bangladeshis .Sons of Soil vs the Outsider . Sounds like the latest game launched by Nintendo .The "Us vs "Them" game has come full circle .
North East People working in our lowermost strata like security gaurds and cooks in small restaurant make a frantic exodus from their adopted cities .I cant think of a more stupid tragedy. It doesn't even make sense .It makes no economic or Political sense whatsoever.
Hindus always hated Muslims and Muslims always hated Hindus till recently . It created such a one sided equilibrium that it became Politically irrelevant.Now people who where so used to getting political mileage from the Politics of hatred are perplexed . They are experimenting and fomenting new types of hatred most ably amplified by the sheer hatred that all of us have for the "Other". This Other could be -Region , Religion , Caste , Sub caste ,Language ,Gender , Idea , Ideology - anything under the Sun that Separates Us from them.Some people are so refined in this game that they have created a new form of hatred . Political vs Non Political .
This Sons of Soil vs the Others game is not particularly Indian . The game is played globaly and is a superhit everywhere .Lets see a few examples of this SoS vs others game played in its different versions around the globe.
Obama is promising to make sure jobs don't go to Indians .He is making speaches against jobs going to Bangalore like they used to make against the speaches against the mighty Soviet - Union in the 60 s and 70s . I hope he gets to see the data of poor Indians living below a dollar a day.
Australians were beating Indian students black and blue without reason (unless they were trying to avenge Harbhajan Singh.
MNS and company were beating up the poor taxi wala till they realised they needed one to go home after the beating was over .
In Srilanka it was SoS Singhala's Vs the Tamils . They didnt stop till they painted a very green country quite Red with each others blood .
Hindu's thought there was some kind of shame till a 500 year old Mosque was not brought down .And they brought it down with all shamelessness.
The Taliban thought that the Bamiyan Buddha was standing too tall in a Taliban country . They brought it down with equal shamelessness.
Back in country the Kashmiris have always thought they needed some kind of special status ,for God knows what reason except that they are fairer than other Indians ,which anyways automatically gives a special status to anyone in this Colour Maniac Fair and Lovely loving country of ours .
Lets understand the present tragedy .The people of North-East have been fighting as SoS for last 65 years . To them everyone else is an outsider ofcourse and since they have not much to share with others they want to have everything for themselves .If you thought North Eastern people are one think again . The people of Nagaland , Manipur , Assam , Sikkim , Mizoram , Meghalaya, Tripura dont exactly behave like brothers to each other .They have been fighting pitched battles among themselves for quite long . Its only in Delhi and Bangalore they realise that they are after all treated as one by the equally SoS people who consider them outsiders .
My state and your state my country and your country is a ridiculous definition . You don't own the whole state and its work environment just cause you were born in it .And in Assam its just poor people killing the very poor people.The insecurity in the minds of North East People in Bangalore needs to be dispelled and they must feel free and secure to work there . Just cause they come come from poor states doesn't mean they need to feel insecure. And historically all of us are Migrants or Outsiders , The Aryans were migrants, The whole population of Australia and USA is Migrant. .Still Feel proud about it like Columbus and Vasco.Going to some other land in search of opportunity should be looked as aspirational and cool.
While we can keep blaming Pakistan for this tragedy and every other tragedy,of course an Outsider is the best person to blame for any tragedy ,its time we look into ourselves .Hate spreads like love does . We have to decide which one to let loose.
North East People working in our lowermost strata like security gaurds and cooks in small restaurant make a frantic exodus from their adopted cities .I cant think of a more stupid tragedy. It doesn't even make sense .It makes no economic or Political sense whatsoever.
Hindus always hated Muslims and Muslims always hated Hindus till recently . It created such a one sided equilibrium that it became Politically irrelevant.Now people who where so used to getting political mileage from the Politics of hatred are perplexed . They are experimenting and fomenting new types of hatred most ably amplified by the sheer hatred that all of us have for the "Other". This Other could be -Region , Religion , Caste , Sub caste ,Language ,Gender , Idea , Ideology - anything under the Sun that Separates Us from them.Some people are so refined in this game that they have created a new form of hatred . Political vs Non Political .
This Sons of Soil vs the Others game is not particularly Indian . The game is played globaly and is a superhit everywhere .Lets see a few examples of this SoS vs others game played in its different versions around the globe.
Obama is promising to make sure jobs don't go to Indians .He is making speaches against jobs going to Bangalore like they used to make against the speaches against the mighty Soviet - Union in the 60 s and 70s . I hope he gets to see the data of poor Indians living below a dollar a day.
Australians were beating Indian students black and blue without reason (unless they were trying to avenge Harbhajan Singh.
MNS and company were beating up the poor taxi wala till they realised they needed one to go home after the beating was over .
In Srilanka it was SoS Singhala's Vs the Tamils . They didnt stop till they painted a very green country quite Red with each others blood .
Hindu's thought there was some kind of shame till a 500 year old Mosque was not brought down .And they brought it down with all shamelessness.
The Taliban thought that the Bamiyan Buddha was standing too tall in a Taliban country . They brought it down with equal shamelessness.
Back in country the Kashmiris have always thought they needed some kind of special status ,for God knows what reason except that they are fairer than other Indians ,which anyways automatically gives a special status to anyone in this Colour Maniac Fair and Lovely loving country of ours .
Lets understand the present tragedy .The people of North-East have been fighting as SoS for last 65 years . To them everyone else is an outsider ofcourse and since they have not much to share with others they want to have everything for themselves .If you thought North Eastern people are one think again . The people of Nagaland , Manipur , Assam , Sikkim , Mizoram , Meghalaya, Tripura dont exactly behave like brothers to each other .They have been fighting pitched battles among themselves for quite long . Its only in Delhi and Bangalore they realise that they are after all treated as one by the equally SoS people who consider them outsiders .
My state and your state my country and your country is a ridiculous definition . You don't own the whole state and its work environment just cause you were born in it .And in Assam its just poor people killing the very poor people.The insecurity in the minds of North East People in Bangalore needs to be dispelled and they must feel free and secure to work there . Just cause they come come from poor states doesn't mean they need to feel insecure. And historically all of us are Migrants or Outsiders , The Aryans were migrants, The whole population of Australia and USA is Migrant. .Still Feel proud about it like Columbus and Vasco.Going to some other land in search of opportunity should be looked as aspirational and cool.
While we can keep blaming Pakistan for this tragedy and every other tragedy,of course an Outsider is the best person to blame for any tragedy ,its time we look into ourselves .Hate spreads like love does . We have to decide which one to let loose.
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