On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM, ashok _ <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not sure if this situation is only because of the rocket launch center.
The saying goes, "Once is accident, twice is coincidence, thrice is
enemy action".
No doubt there are many probable causes of economic detritus, but the
deliberate creation of economic dead zones is an observable instrument
of state policy in India. The scale of backwardness here crosses the
lines of incompetence and negligence by miles.
Whether it is, as I suspect, in this case, rather directly the
protection of a rocket launch center, or more imaginatively intricate:
a dead zone of spite, the lack of development is an unarguable
reality.
Segue: Dead zone of spite:
A dead zone of spite is my term for a symptom caused by a larger
behavioral pattern where regional states, especially in South India,
created along linguistic lines battle with a profound sense of unease
caused by their subordinate presence in a federal Hindi speaking
system and as a result bicker with the other lightweights.
Set theory notation:
{Gulbarga, Bidar, Hosur, Pulicat, Nagercoil} ∪ {Cholavaram, North
Madras, Thiruvananthapuram, Attibele} ∩ {Hyderabad, Bangalore,
Chennai}
Ancient and imagined rivalries are fought now as ever in prominent
battlefields next to State capitals where the populace atop the
ramparts can witness violent statecraft in action as if all of three
score and some years of independence hold no meaning.
Contrast this with Delhi, historical capital to a dozen dynasties
which holds itself above the fray like a queen who allows herself to
be impartially served by her vassal states. Gurgaon thrives where
Pulicat withers.
Class consciousness among States isn't imaginary.
