Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Regionalism: A new aspect of cheap politics

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve". I remember somewhere I have read these lines of George Bernard Shaw's comment. In today’s era, these lines seem to be 100 % true. With the spread of hate, violence, non- tolerance in the name of Marathi Manoos, started yet another chapter in the cheap politics of my nation. I have some questions to all those leaders who are self-proclaiming savior of Marathi manoos and the Marathi culture:
"You have all your kids educated at prestigious schools like Bombay-Scottish in English medium, why did you not admit them in Marathi-medium schools”?
They want all the non-marathis to get out of the Maharashtra; will they be calling all the marathis from all over the India back to Maharashtra? What will they do when all the non-marathis will leave Maharashtra? Do they have any plan, any vision when they will be left with almost no taxi drivers, rickshaw pullers or any other labourers?
However, it is always easy for us to point our fingers to the leaders and skip our duty as a citizen of this republic. Are we that blind? Can we not do introspection? We are no better than a herd of sheep who blindly follows the one who is in front, never argue, never reason, never question, Just follow.