i used to think naa believe, too much of anything in a good way would never be bad...for example, too much of good love, it can never be bad...too much of water in rice, it cant be as bad as frying the rice :D...too much of water for plants, hmmm not as bad as drying them, atleast they die stomach fulls :)...too much of exercise, again in a good way it shouldn't be bad, right? i mean is it good to have body aches or excessive body fat??? point to ponder...would you prefer a yokozuna sized girl or a anorexic girl??? if those were the only two women left in the world...i would prefer leaving the world too!! :D anyway...well coming to point...too much of friendship, until it gets obsessive, i am sure it cant be bad...too many friends, well friends are always good! hell that cant be bad...and well so on...i let myself indulge in few things like extra chocolates, extra junk food, extra no-work, extra soft drinks and etc etc etc(see extra etc's too!!) but well like most of my beliefs, this one took a mighty beating too...from something very very simple...salt...yup, you guessed it right...salt!i tried cooking...and realized, too much of salt...can be pretty bad!! and then i started thinking...thinking thinking thinking...thinking thinking thinking...oops too much thinking, guess now, thats something which can be bad too...well again from a simple topic of extras lets see whats extra that is going on around us...too much of regionalism in our own country...now we have reached a point, where-in, it can literally mean your life...if you don't know how to speak the regional language...madras had that kind of problem long back...a fetish to tamil...but now, madras is one of the fastest growing cities in asia, and the way and speed with which it has started to accommodate people from all parts of india is real outstanding...so let me put a point to ponder again, how indian are we? what does being indian mean? we can see indians in literally every part of the world...our spread is literally un-paralled...and we talk about regionalism?? how fair is that?? and what i don't believe is that even educated people support ideas like these...as if we didn't have enough states, there are more and more trying to separate out...and internal turmoil in others runs unabated. at this point i ask, how much of regionalism is good? and does it score brownie points over patriotism? what will you rate higher? i would say i am an indian first and then an andhrite...hindi is my primary language and telugu my mother tongue...but my views are my views...and india being a democracy, where everyone has a right to say anything, still can come under the hammer of regionalism...well democracy is just a vague term now...it no more holds the same value or meaning with which it was coined. "democracy:a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them", well i think its a system where few people have used there rights more than that is required and made democracy a curry with extra salt...a little extra and the taste, the truth, the real definition just disappears...and leaves a bad taste...but extra love in a good way, an extra help for a good cause, an extra thought for our brothers and sisters in trouble...can never ever be bad...
--dravi
Written On: Thursday September 11, 2008 - 01:40pm (IST)
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