The Plight of being an Indian

This blog is not meant to dissuade ourselves of being proud to be an Indian but how an individual born in India has to live up to the expectations of its country, religion, state, family, and caste.
When you are born you not only becomes an Indian but also a Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or a Christian. If that is not enough you also become one of the four recipients of Traditional Hindu Caste System (Brahman, Kshatriya, vaishya or Shudra) or become either a Sunni or Shia. The Story doesn’t ends here. You are also tied in terms of linguistic and Regional boundaries. These are apart from the role a man plays in his life as a son, Father, lover, husband, grandfather and the list continues.
The Multiple identities of an Individual has been for decades and our society has been used it. These identities are not decided by an individual but are imposed by the social fabric structure of our country. Whenever somebody wants to come out of this, he not only faces the agony of those who are self guardian of the society but various backlashes, boycott or worse the honor killing.
Is our social structure so rigid that our welfare and development is only possible under the confinement of our patriarchal society? The question needs an honest answer from all of us.
Recently there has been uproar over the Telangana issue. My question is that why the development is not possible under the united Andhra Pradesh. If possible then why the people of telangana have to suffer for decades that their problem will be sort out only under a new regime.
In Maharashtra people feel proud of calling themselves Marathi by beating innocents in the name of Marathi manoos .Do we need a work permit to do a job in Mumbai? I think our politicians better knows the answer. The migrants are not snatching jobs of the local. It is the system which is corrupts that forces people from Bihar and UP to search for jobs outside their homes.
A Hindu guy was brutally murdered when he eloped with a Muslim girl and the case of Rizwan in Kolkata when he married a Hindu daughter of an influential businessman.
I remember an incident when someone introduces himself as south Indian. I have never heard the terms East Indian and West Indian. But pick up any newspaper and you will have one column dedicated for the people fighting for the cause of North and South Indians.
These references clearly show where we people are heading now. To carve out a new identity is very easy by dividing people on various grounds but is this India we have dream of. Are we people not creating another East India Company which flourished on the policy of Divide and rule? The people are not even aware of these social boundaries which are spreading venom in the heart of the new generation. The time has come to rise above this parochialism. The recent unrest over the Telangana has open a Pandora’s box out of which new states Gorkhaland, Harit Pradesh, Bodoland, Poorvanchal and many more are rising. It is obvious that states with small geo-political boundaries are easier to govern a state, but division of state in terms of regional and linguistic boundaries will lead to only disaster. It has become imperative to break this ice which never seems to melt in spite of so much global warming.