Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Regionalism mocking Unity in Diversity

Regional Divide of India was enforced on the grounds of Diversity and its Preservation in its most native form. It aimed at and succeeded in conserving and promoting exclusive cultural heritage of different regions. Never had it implied that these regions start behaving like a different entity, almost like another country making free movement of people and resources in and out difficult or impossible.
Given the present scenario, we seemed to have drifted from its original reasoning, the other of course being easy governance.
We have to first understand here a very simple law of nature. Nature distributes resources not according to individual regions but over a large area very randomly. It may not at all endow one particular area with all the resources. And this very deficiency gave rise to the ‘inter’ trade concept i.e. exchange of goods and services of one for ones it lacks in.
Economics, the science created by humans itself assumes certain things like supply of labor, availability of resources etc to validate its laws. In spite of these irrefutable arguments, there are ignorant who don’t think even once how foolish they sound when they talk of welfare in the name of parochialism.
If there is a thing which can bind us all into one entity with versatile potentials, it is Education.
The cases of violence due to regionalism has been many in India. It is only Education that can free us of our regional, cultural, religion and caste biases. And our current Education system must ensure such an upbringing that we grow up with a feeling of love and compassion for our fellow human beings and respect for their cultural and social practices.
Oxygen… a movement view

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