"Play on our Strengths"

The greatest physicist of the past century won the Noble for Photoelectric effect. It simply states that every element has a stable state and this stable state can be different for different atoms. If the atom is excited by external means, the atom moves into another state but only momentarily. They return to the stable state almost immediately.

Similarly every community has its own characteristics. These characteristics have been developed over past few thousand years as a result of interaction with natural environment, historical events and for small part character of original community. Hence we have "the straight" German, Tight Upper lipped British, Hard working East Asian, Economiser Jews etc. Similar I would like to attribute Indians as the Rebellious Free-Thinker.

In 2-3 thousand years of history India has never united. It was always a amalgamation of different thoughts and practices. Different people with different cultures were welcomed. Their identity was neither dissolved into common pool, nor were they kept separated from the community as a whole. And even then we had a common thread of culture running among all of us.

India was the only country in the world where "monotheistic" religion was never developed. May be thats because of our rebellious attitude. Majority of us do not want some person like Pope from Vatican or Mulla from Jamma Mashjid to be sermonising us on what to do and what not to. We had 100 different flavours of Hinduism based on some common foundation.

And may "pluralistic" attitude which might have caused us not to progress beyond a point. The Western definition of progress meant mass production, and mass production meant big investment. This also meant that 99% people follow the 1% of the leader. This was the east Asian economies grew as they have the culture of "dumb follower" of the leadership.

But times are changing. The cost of implementing new ideas is dramatically reducing day by day. We have knowledge revolution ahead of us. Here the mass production wont hold sway. Here the winner will be one with a good IDEA. And this should be the to our strengths.

May India become a super power soon.

Amen.

Advantages of being a Marathi person in Karnataka

This is purely from personal experience.

1. I know 1 language more than other marathi or kannadiga.
2. I have twice the number of friends.
3. I am comfortable to roam around in double the area.. i. e. Karnataka and Maharashtra.
4. I can take up job and still feel at home at Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur etc
5. Since I know one dravidian language, learning other dravidian languages is easy. I learnt Telugu in 6 months to quite a good extent.
6. I can comfortably watch twice the number of Good Movies, read twice the number of Good Books.
7. Enjoy good food.. from Ukadiche Modak to Obbattu, from Bajrichi Bhakri to Ragi Mudde.

And all this without any extra trouble. I dont even remember how I learnt to speak, read and write kannada. And I never felt being out of place either in Karnataka Or Maharashtra.

And I notice most of the people making noise are those who are Maharashtrians in Maharashtra or Kannadigas in Karnataka.

And what about so many non-localites getting settled in all parts of the country from Mumbai to Bangalore, Chennai to Mangalore, Pune to Kokatta. So is solution is to make all cities as "Union Teritories" ? This is the age of globalization and universal language (English) is used in all these
cities.

While people are free to use their mother tongue at home, studying one more extra language will not cause any harm.

Linguistic divide of the state was a mistake.. and politicians want to take even more advantage of this. I apeal to all Maharashtrians staying out of Maharashtra and Kannadigas staying out of karnataka to speak out against this politization of the issue and spoiling peace and prosperity in
both of these 2 states.