Regionalism...now positively

Now, in this post I thought of now going into humor as suggested by one of my friend MGY, but this evening while I was chatting with my closest friend he suggested me to elaborate the topic of regionalism and also to write on the other aspect of Unity in Diversity in India.
Well as I said in my last post that we make fun of the other cultures, communities etc. but we are also proud of being a part of the seventh largest country in the world where we have people belonging to different religions and languages. This evening while I was going through the Wikipedia for India, I found we have 8 major religions, 22 major languages all integrated into a single word called INDIA. I am recalling the moment when I was watching the movie ‘Chak De India’ for the first time; I was trying to imagine a team of any sport playing for India. How they would feel while they are playing for their motherland forgetting their own state, religion, caste, language etc. etc. They have only one thing set in their mind, sport for INDIA. Here, I guess regionalism gets completely vanished. We, Indians are said to be the best audience for cricket. We really are. We have some people among us who specifically love Dada (Saurav Ganguly) because he is from Bengal or Dhoni as he is from Jharkhand, but we have a majority of people, who love Sachin Tendulkar not because he is from Maharashtra but because he is a great cricketer (I used Dada Dhoni and Sachin as examples please don’t go hard into it). Here I would like to share with you all an incident. Jharkhand being one of the new states is not very known or familiar name in some villages. Once when I was on my way to my native village for summer vacations, a person asked me about the originating town of my journey and very likely he didn’t knew the name of Jharkhand before few days but came to know due to Dhoni and now they started to respect Jharkhand for the same reason and he was very inquisitive to know about Jharkhand. So I would like to highlight here the curiosity of some people to know about other cultures and regions. Here the medium was obviously cricket but still I enjoyed the way he was trying to learn about the other state.
So, here also giving importance to the comment posted by Parag, I would like to tell my blog-readers that we need to enhance the feeling of Unity in Diversity by just not crossing the limits of fun and trying to respect others. Thanks for all the comments
Enjoy the Diorama and keep commenting…!!!

Regionalism

I don’t know why I am choosing such a serious topic as the 1st entry to my blog but truly speaking this is one thing I have been suffering from the time I got senses. Why do we boast of ourselves as a secular country and the crap like ‘unity in diversity’? Myself being a Telugu speaking and having stayed all my life in a place hard to find a Telugu around, I always tried to learn the other cultures. I would like to take an example on the prevailing regionalism in India. The one thing I don’t like is why south-Indians should be taunted and made fun for their speaking language, dressing sense, living habits and even their eating habits. The south Indians never speak a word about the other cultures then why should they be made fun of. But there is one positive point also which I should mention that the north-Indians do respect south-Indians for their literacy level. Here I would like to state a common incident which happens mostly in our day-to-day life. When two people speaking in some south-Indian language, the third person is afraid of being abused by the other two. Why so? Are you guilty of anything that drives you to think that you would be abused?
I have a sincere plea to all people reading this blog – please understand the other cultures and don’t make fun of them and just assume if the same thing is done in reverse to you how you would react and how are they reacting to your jokes on them. I am not limiting my view on only south-Indians or linguistic based differences but for all those cultures, religions etc. which are made fun of. Let us please make the slogan ‘Unity in Diversity’ a true statement.

Introduction

Well, finally I got this opportunity or rather say I got the time to start my blog. So without describing much about the starting of the blog I would like to tell about the blog. I have started this blog to express my views on varied topics which I want the people to know and understand. I would like all my friends visiting this blog to mail their comments on my e-mail id nvrsrao@gmail.com. I would like to dedicate this blog to all my well wishers...thank you guys for your support.

Enjoy the Diorama...!!!