Its a 100 yr old debate and just like other tussles over sharing of natural resources between states/nations this one also will never get solved. But on monday 5th Feb when Cauvery tribunal was abou to to give its verdict , a lot of people where waiting for the verdict with bated breath ... Among this lot were a lot of my colleagues at office ... now how does water sharing formula of a river which runs through 2 states and primarily affects the farmers would interest the crowd of techies was kinda puzzling to me initially. But then this is city of
Along with water tussle there is another big fight in the offing a similar yet diff kind of problem ... While flowing through two states the river also seems to dividing ppl from these two states , instead of finding means to solve their problems , ppl seem content to bicker from either side of the river. Everyone has their own share of problems and actions like violence against ppl from the other state will never help in bring a solution. River seems to run through 2 set of people and dividing ppl living in the city , the war has begun with cable operators firing the first salvo; all tamil TV channels have been blocked since the day the verdict came out ! Most of the bus services have been suspended between the states since then ...Stage seems to set for anti-Tamil movement .Though most people know such measures are hardly ever going to help .. things just happen . During such times voices of reason are seldom heard, it is these moments when reason fails that as an individual you feel totally helpless ...
Last time things came to this level was in '91 when after the verdict came things changed and people changed . .. it was a totally harrowing time for the sizeable tamil population in the cosmopolitan city fo B'lore .
Ofcourse I was not there , but knew a lot of close friends and family members who were here @ Bangalore ( city they call their home) . "...it was really a situation of riots brought to
u won't understand...no one who wasn't there will understand...
being tamils was a huge thing...u could get killed for that... " was what i got when i asked one of them why is there such a huge buildup to the Cauvery tribunal verdict which came out today ...
Now suddenly a lot of us have this slight feeling of insecurity which is suffered by majority of the minority groups all over the world ...
As usual politicians and small time leaders as is their wont , have begun fishing in troubled waters and if last week's riots in some parts after rally to protest execution of Suddam Hussein ( 1 month after the execution) was any indication , there is a huge danger of this issue escalating into another widespread riots. Now the latest news is that Bandh call which was made for Thursday earlier is now postponed to monday so that they can do adequate 'preparations' !
2 comments:
nice post dood !!!
nice that I came out of that place ;)
its all that usual local leader's gimmicks to have their base n have something 2 speak abt n garner votes.. simple case of stimulating emotions and make them act in a way that the politicians want 2 do
aha...my mail in ur blog :)
well, it definitely seems to have petered out now...
but the thing is...there was no backing from the govt this time..!!
The last time, it was almost Modi-ish..with Bangarappa in the hot seat..actively abetting the riots...
Farmers and the aam aadmi will never get violent. Violence always begins with hooligans sanctioned by political interests. The preventive sweep, taking likely rabble-rousers into custody literally delivered a death blow to any chances of violence...must say, HDK did a great job abt it!!
but I guess the nature of Bangalore also has changed...its no longer sensitive to the issue...and the cosmpolitan nature has definietly alienated the Cauvery issue from Bangalore.
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