Here's my attempt at answering the questions: The South is better disciplined not just in Medical or engineering education, it is better disciplined overall. Incidentally, Manipal is not a government institution - it is private, developed by private initiative and that too by members of a community (the GSBs of Karnataka) that do not have too much political power in the state.
The South took the stability in their communities, harnessed it for progress and took advantage of the opportunities that India has thrown up in the last decade and a half. They were doing it and progressing despite the disadvantages in the federal power structure. Their LOCAL politicians and rest of the LOCAL leadership were rising above the morass and doing constructive work. The north or the Hindi wallas were still wallowing in their feudal structure and the shibboleths of a few decades back. So despite the supposed imperialistic outlook of "Hastinapur" and despite the disadvantages of being in the wrong side of power structure, communities in the South have done well. The Indian system works for them. And despite the power structure being with the Hindi wallas, the Indian system does not work for them. What it means is that the Indian system works just fine. If it is made to work. It has been demonstrated in the last 15 years. Which begets the question that has been asked repeatedly and never answered: Why is it the South can do it with the current system and the north east has not been able to? For apologists of separatism I can understand why they would not want to answer the question. There would not be an evil empire to blame for all our ills. After 40 years of independence, a certain dynamism has pervaded India (or parts of it) - never mind some rants on this board about how India just needs a whiff of thin air to break apart and crumble. For 50 years before independence and a few decades thereafter, the dynamism was in the north primarily based around the fight for independence and the resultant euphoria amongst the masses. The south was disconnected. Which is why in the federal structure the north has had a stronger voice. Given that dynamism (and prosperity) in this day and age is centered around the South, the power structure will shift. We will probably see more PMs from the south. And if you go by what Chandrababu Naidu demanded when he was CM - he asked why Bihar should get federal funds (much of which came from states like his) when they continue to misuse it year after year after year - it portends a future where the South would seek and get its leadership role in the federal structure that it has earned or it would seek and get a change in the federal structure because they have proven they can do better with their own funds. Much of such changes in the federal polity will happen on a constructive agenda fueled by a public's demand for progress. Very little will come about with a "destructive" agenda. For every community involved, the interest is in keeping a single India - not because waves of "in the air" patriotism will rush over different parts - but because a single India makes sense of progress and stability in these changed times for all the involved people. --- Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: Why the South seems to be better > disciplined in educational > institutions in India specially in Medicine? What is > the secret? > Sometime it looks like South India is more > Mainlanland India. Why > they donot revolt against the domination of the > Hindi-wallas? Why > they donot hate India like the North East? The South > seem to be > progressing completely ignoring or in spite of the > Hindi belt North > India. Or is the South gradually taking over the > North? > > > *** What would be your answers to the questions > Rajen? Can you > elaborate a little? > > c > > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 2:40 PM -0600 12/29/04, Barua25 wrote: > >Blue Thoughts: > > > >It seems some Indian educational institutions are > doing great. Take > >for instance the welknown : Manipal Medical > College. I came to know > >that they have now opened brnaches even in Nepal > and Thailand and > >are attarcting lot of international students. > > > >Question: Why the South seems to be better > disciplined in > >educational institutions in India specially in > Medicine? What is the > >secret? Sometime it looks like South India is more > Mainlanland > >India. Why they donot revolt against the domination > of the > >Hindi-wallas? Why they donot hate India like the > North East? The > >South seem to be progressing completely ignoring or > in spite of the > >Hindi belt North India. 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