WILL INDIA SURVIVE?

61 long years and we continue to rant, 'developing nation'. And then we ask, when? When will this country doff the 'developing' tag and come out bright and shiny adorned in the DEVELOPED attire? The answer is NEVER. You ask why? Well not because this country doesn't have potential. Not because we don't have resources. Not because we don't have human resources (now, that is something we have in abundance!). But because I'm a Bihari first and then an Indian. An Iyengar first, followed by my Tamil pride and then if my bloated ego allows, a wee little bit of Indian. Because Holi is a North Indian festival and Pongal South Indian. Because Carnatic music is practiced by South Indians and Hindustani Classical by North Indians. Because Malayalam is better than Bengali or vice versa. Because the Marathi in me has forgotten Tatya Tope and Rani Laxmibai. Because the North Eastern in me doesn't have any sense of belonging. Because the Hindu in me will willfully snatch University land meant for (Muslim??) students in Amarnath. Because being Hindu gives me the birth right to rape a Christian nun or better still, burn a man with his two innocent sons alive. Because for the dickhead Laloo, feeding his 11 kids and snatching food from buffaloes was more important than the bloody development of Bihar. Because for the asshole Karunanidhi, death of fellow 'Tamils’ in Sri Lanka is way more important than the stability of the government at the center of his own nation. Because for the bitch Mamta Banerjee, opposing industrilization is the number one priority. And because for the bastard Raj Thackrey, Maharashtrians come before other fellow Indians who are working day in and day out to make two ends meet. Where was all the 'Biharis-are-the-lifeline-of-this-nation' bakwaas, when the Bihari in me was being treated like a toe rag in my own state? Where does the Tamil pride vanish when the Tamil in me is molested in bus? Where the fuck was all the tribal rights talk when the tribal kids were being fed insects as food? Where the hell was the Maratha land talk when it was being made the hub of the underworld?

Yesterday I was stripped naked and plundered by the British. Today I stand at the mercy of my own sons. Tomorrow, I'll have a new telangana, away from the present Andhra Pradesh. Day after tomorrow, all Muslims will be driven away from their motherland. And the day after that, India will be pronounced dead. And maybe then, we'll listen to our souls, I was always an INDIAN.