If I were to address my Telangana people who are despondent because of battle bruises as a result of tireless fighting for their society prosperity and of their own, here it goes.
Dear Fellow Telanganite,
Out History:
We have a great history of fighting for the righteous and just causes. We also have great history of not get weathered by the defeat. We fought back many a times. Is not we who fought along with Indian army to get our independence from Nizam tyranny? Are not we the people who challenged the history many a times with never dying fighting spirit? Fighting occupied larger share in our history. Our fight shall continue till we achieve our goal. The question before all of us today - How “this very fighting spirit” can be utilized in a positive way for the development of all sections of society.
Economy:
Is not it the Telangana society faulted to apply the same “fighting spirit” on its economic front? It is very common knowledge that business are built with only people who have “fighting spirit”. Why have we failed to do that though we have “fighting spirit” in abundance? Is not this very same society has necessary wherewithal to fight back but it can’t take risks on economic front? This is very contrast to our own ethos. Unfortunately “Fighting Spirit” made us dearer to communism in place of Capitalism. An open society such as ours- which will embrace the people from across the country and their cultures and cuisine, should have embraced capitalism. Unfortunately Telangana intelligentsia and elders attracted to communism. This hampered our progress on economic front. In addition to this, AP administration filled with Telangana detractors further denied necessary economic wherewithal. Partly this fear is due to lack of necessary financial assistance from the state. This should change. To thrive on economic front requires lot of soft infrastructure. We should have created more bankers. we should have created more industrialists. But that did not happen. This all can be reverted to normalcy only when we have proper educations system.
Education:
We always maintained that "Language" is an instrument to establish bonds and win over the hearts of our guests. Perhaps that is the reason we embraced Urdu, Marthi, Kannada, Gujarathi, Hindi and many more. Is not the pure "Telangani" that we speak is confluence of Kannada, Marathi, Hindi, Urdu? Unfortunately in this country some group of people think that "Language” is a means to loot people, exploit the resources and suppress the genuine democratic voice. Are not we entrapped by our detractors, by taking false pride in the language – Telugu? However, we do not hold anything against language, but we bitterly oppose the idea of language being used as instrument of suppression. Don’t you think that shunning this language "Telugu" - which is an instrument of suppression and embracing language, like "English”, would be in the interest of the generations to come in Telangana?
Kancha Illaiah, the Dalit intellectual that Telangana gave to India always maintained that English medium education is one of the best ways to emancipate Dalits. Don’t you think that our OU dalit student leaders had necessary language skills, should not be given back to National media’s campaign that naxals infiltrated in genuine people movement? Kancha illaiah view needs to be given highest attention, given the situation where jobs are being created only in the private sector and they will be continue to be created in the future too. Don’t you think high school educated Telangana youth do get more jobs if they have English medium education? Don’t you think we need to overhaul all our university education system? Can’t we have a Telangana – Palamur University for sciences – proximity to many pharmacy companies? Warangal University for arts? Karim Nagar University for commerce. And XYZ for X? Is not the creating centers of excellence is bad idea?
Is not it the less movement of people across the regions in undivided AP, is the reason for “Trust Deficit” prevailing in the state? Can we afford to have same trust deficit in Telangana as well? No! So if we have people moving from one district to other in pursuit of their dreams will surely result in greater understanding of Telangana sub cultures. Having different centres of excellence across the state further strengths the society bringing down the socio economic disparities and also they help to understand local problems better. If we have Telangana intellectuals, journalists and bureaucrats speared across the country, in what shape Telangana movement should have been today?. There are few moneyed people in the Telangana. At least through soft infrastructure, we should have achieved our goal. Is not it the time to create more and more intellectuals from Telangana for furthering the Telangana interests? This all can be achieved if we have our university education overhauled.
This will be continued in the next post—economy, Cultural changes, Leader ship, Self Esteem …etc.Your comments and feedback will be highly appreciated.
On Personal note:
Today morning one of my Bihari friends called me to say that he was posted an Assist Superident of Police (ASP) in one of the Telangana Districts. In normal times a friend greets him with congrats or whatever nice courteous words .What I did was - I requested him not to beat up/suppress Telangana people who are fighting for just and righteous cause as his superiors are doing in AP.Perhaps this incident exposes the despondency of Telanganite in the Indian establishment. Only Time will tell If India is really a banana republic or it is a republic that follows its characteristics in letter and spirit.
