Comments on: Conservative and Reactionary http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/conservative-and-reactionary/ Voices from the Indian Blogosphere Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:39:13 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: suresh http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/conservative-and-reactionary/comment-page-1/#comment-8355 suresh Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:54:35 +0000 http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/conservative-and-reactionary/#comment-8355 <i>My own view is that if our ‘national’ politics can only throw up such limited choice that you’ve to choose between one kind of extremists or the other, then a break-up is perhaps the only sane way out.</i> Would that matters were so simple. It would be simple if the "extremists" were only at the national level, and at the "sub-national" level, people were sane. As the Raj Thackeray and now, the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu imbroglio tells us, the idiots at the sub-national level can be much worse. Who was it - Ram Guha, perhaps? - that pointed out that one of the "advantages" of a unified Indian state was that it enabled the lunacies at the sub-national level from going too far. As of now, for instance, both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu at least in theory defer to the Supreme Court. It's not as strong a case for retaining the unified structure as the loony nationalists would like, but it's not to be dismissed either. I don't want to bring in 1947 again and I am not suggesting like the loony nationalists that "India" be preserved come what may, just that we be very, very careful. My own view is that if our ‘national’ politics can only throw up such limited choice that you’ve to choose between one kind of extremists or the other, then a break-up is perhaps the only sane way out.

Would that matters were so simple. It would be simple if the “extremists” were only at the national level, and at the “sub-national” level, people were sane. As the Raj Thackeray and now, the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu imbroglio tells us, the idiots at the sub-national level can be much worse.

Who was it – Ram Guha, perhaps? – that pointed out that one of the “advantages” of a unified Indian state was that it enabled the lunacies at the sub-national level from going too far. As of now, for instance, both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu at least in theory defer to the Supreme Court.

It’s not as strong a case for retaining the unified structure as the loony nationalists would like, but it’s not to be dismissed either. I don’t want to bring in 1947 again and I am not suggesting like the loony nationalists that “India” be preserved come what may, just that we be very, very careful.

]]> By: harini calamur http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/conservative-and-reactionary/comment-page-1/#comment-8345 harini calamur Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:23:25 +0000 http://www.blogbharti.com/kuffir/india/conservative-and-reactionary/#comment-8345 i have another point of view here : the option is conversation... the whole point of a republic is a form of Nation where citizens have a buy in..... make sure that they have....If there isn't conversation and consensus and only force.. then there will be break up.... if you take the people who have a different view, figure out why their views are different and accommodate these diverse views within the Republic you will survive... else you will break up..... i have another point of view here :
the option is conversation… the whole point of a republic is a form of Nation where citizens have a buy in….. make sure that they have….If there isn’t conversation and consensus and only force.. then there will be break up….
if you take the people who have a different view, figure out why their views are different and accommodate these diverse views within the Republic you will survive… else you will break up…..

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