My dear India

“Dad, so…we have to leave India now”………that’s the question Suhana asked SRK, on phone.

I wonder what SRK would have answered to his daughter, to bring back the cute smile on her face…..

I don’t bother if SRK intentionally shared about this conversation before media or he was badly hurt with that question that he could not control that. But he clearly knows the fact that, every word that speaks there will be played & re-played by media, world wide.

It’s not just the IPL issue or Rahul vs Mumbai issue but, there is much bigger and dangerous devils out there.

Today, identity crisis has grown up so huge that we almost forgot that we are humans.

I was born at Bangalore and when I was 6 years old, we all moved to Hyderabad. I remember all my life that’s gone by yet still I tried to re-collect if I ever had asked my mother, “why we are moving to Hyd and why cant we stay here, in Bangalore?”

No, I dnt asked any such. All the more important was, I was so excited to be in new place and as like any kid, I was so excited to be on train, so I was truly thrilled and least interested where actually I am going.

We just changed the place and started working and building new life in Hyd. That’s all and we have not changed behaving as humans, wherever we are.

But after 25 years life spent in Hyd, now I see that the there is a voice now for division of people who are naturally from Hyd and those who are not.

I heard from friends and close families that, these groups make phone calls often at odd hours, demanding for money. Because they think that we are outsiders and had earned a lot in all these years, by being and staying in their land.

Does that in other words said as rent to be paid because we used Hyd in our postal communications. I lost my nerve on hearing all that and strongly wish to see the face of that person who said that way, on phone.

I hate to say, but its fact. Today, its too suffocating to live around people who breath the air for division. And its not just one part or one piece but almost all the corners of the nation are out there protesting in some way or the other, for their own personal foolish needs.

Now, I want to re-study my social science subject to understand what exactly a state would be called. After 60 years of so called being Republic country, had the definition of ‘for the people, by the people and to the people’ had changed.

Does our administration has become so weak that people started to take religion and caste as the bigger things than the country itself.

Why are we allowing this to happen…?

So is it true that we always love the British strategy, ‘divide and rule’

I do not care to give a correct answer if some one asks me, how many states are in our country.

Why do we bother to count how many we have……….why do we put more interest to understand how much of water is staying in Karnataka and how much is released to AP.

To be honest, I am very concerned how long the country map will remain the way it is now.

Our country is so huge in size and population that there is no deficit for protests these days. Some are for the agriculture, some for their jobs and some, for the language.

In all these voices, there is one girl who is fighting since last 10 years for a change in law.

Sharmila, a poet from Manipur is doing hunger strike as she is not happy with government policy and wants a change. She started her hunger strike movement on 2nd Nov 2000 and she is still continuing that; now if you wonder how a person can be without food for 10 years and can still be alive!!!

The answer is, she was arrested on 6th Nov 2000 under section 307 of Indian Penal Code and charged with attempt to commit suicide and later, plastic tube was inserted through her nose, to pass on the fluids as her health turned weak and dangerous. Since then, she is on bed with that tube and that’s the only food she is consuming and hence living.

What’s so crazy that one poet from Manipur is doing such act, does she want a separate state for her own….?

No, it’s a little different this time; she wants to protect her state, her people.

What she wants is a re-visit on AFSPA and make changes in that Act. AFSPA is Armed Forces Special Permission Act that was made in 1958 and as per that, Indian Military are given special powers throughout North East India to:

• Arrest citizens and enter their property without warrant
• Shoot and kill anyone on mere ‘suspicion’
• Enjoy immunity against legal action

With this Act, Indian Military had killed many innocents and there are allegations that many innocent girls were raped and physically harassed just because they have “powers”

Now, is it not fair enough to change the law that was written more than 50 years back?

• But how many of Indians knew about this protest?
• How many media channels show the content about this, on prime time?
• Does any politician have ever thought to discuss on this issue?
• With DIL SE, Mani said that NE side of India is being ignored, is it true?

I pray for her health and respect her strong will power but if GOD forbidden, anything happens to her, then we certainly show to the world that we were not kind enough to save one human soul, that one beautiful soul who loved her community so much that she dared to stand and show her face to the government.

Today, if I close my eyes and think about tomorrow, that makes me very scared.

Scared because of what we would pass on to the next generation.

I know I am old enough and when I see the next generation around me, I am sad that they are being corrupted by all means. I wonder what would be the country that we would leave behind for them.

When I say, “I love my country” and a kid asks me, ‘are you sure?’……there is no mistake in that, because today when we can’t stand together enough for our country, then why would we be proud of something that’s not shared together.

If we do not show any standard of respect to the word unity then its too late to teach the next generation about the word INDIA.

Its time now to re-define....its no longer for the people, by the people and to the people but it should now be as, for the country, to the country and by the country.

Its time, we love our country, respect the fact that we all are Indians and be united to show that we care for our India.