A news story last evening that I saw showed the conflict between Maharashtra and Karnataka over Belgaum.
Kasargod district, sandwiched between Kerala and Karnataka also has been part of a border dispute.
What difference does it make which state these districts belong to? People can still move about freely since both are soverign parts of our country. There may be other smaller issues regarding the fact certain taxes collected will go to the coffers of a different state, or that people will have a different address to write to, in the last line for PIN Code and state whenever letters are being addressed to them.
Of course, its not as simple as I make it sound, there are a lot of issues with regard to a dispute between states, but it does not make too much sense to fight over it.
It would probably be a different mat er altogether to fight about disputed territory between nations, though if one looks at the bigger picture, it becomes trivial once again.
Each living being in existance is involved in some sort of fight or the other. It is either a fight for survival, fight for food, for resources, for territory, for pride, for a living sometimes. When there are enough internal and inadvertent external battles that all of us have to endure each day, does it make sense for us to compound our miseries by having more such issues thrust upon us??
Just the other day there was this news article related to Iraqi militants having captured 10 Shia Muslims from India and Pakistan and threatening to kill them. Shias and Sunnis can’t get along.
Ireland has effectively demonstrated that Catholics and Protestants can’t get along either.
Yithzak Rabin’s assassination in 1993 showed that Jews have internal strifes.
Casteism has divided Hindus and engages them in arguments and fights forever. Take Phoolan Devi’s example, for showing you the tip of the fight-berg.
Office colleagues, spouses, siblings, random strangers…everyone just needs an excuse to swing fists or verbal non-complimentary platitudes at each other.
Nobody had warned us that the circle of life wasn’t smooth after all. Guess one has to experience it for oneself.
existance? reminds me of every snmp 1st case deb wrote- entitled MIB EXISTANCE CHECK. whoa.. is that the french accent kickin in, or dyslexic problemos?