King
Solomon will come later in this post; you may have to wait. But, first things
first.
Telengana
has no problem proclaiming itself as a separate entity, but Seemandhra (Coastal
Andhra) has one. This takes me back to when Bihar wouldn’t let Jharkhand go. In
the earlier case it was the minerals of the southern portions of the state that
made the northern part want to retain the south within itself. Here again, it
is the water resources, and also the cash cow of Hyderabad, that imposes on the
coastal districts to want the interior parts, the districts of Telengana, to
stay with them. So, it is all about those who are the exploiters wishing to maintain
status quo. Telengana’s rights have the upper hand in this understanding.
To
look at the other side of the issue, let us take a page out of King Solomon’s
play book in the case of two women and one child. The true mother of the lone surviving
baby allowed the child to be given to the other woman rather than cut into two. If you saw the current tussle between
Seemandhra and Telengana from that perspective, it is Seemandhra which is the “true
mother”! The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts.
Decide
for yourself. But, one more thing. When there is no Andhra whence Seemandhra?
It can as well remain as Andhra Pradesh, just as Bihar stayed Bihar even after
Jharkhand was jettisoned off.
Raghuram
Ekambaram
2 comments:
According to the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, there will be two States, the State of Telengana and the State of Andhra Pradesh.Seemandhra, Rayalseema etc are regions and the name of the existing State sans districts of Telengana will not be affected.
If the politicians were as wise and just as King Solomon, they would have first found out why exactly did Telengana people find it unbearable to live with the rest of the Telugu speaking people.After all, AP was carved out of Madras on linguistic basis. King Solomon would have addressed the root cause of grievance rather than fan the myopic identity related feelings for narrow political mileage.
Thanks Aditi for clarifying the closing sentence. I thought that Rayalaseema was put paid to rest when Telengana was restricted to the NW parts of the unbifurcated state. It was always Seemandhra in popular discourse and I was misled, not for the first time and not only on this issue.
About our politicians being King Solomon incarnates, let us dream on.
RE
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