WHERE ANCIENT ALIENATIONS EXPLODE TODAY

India. Globalizing India.
- Where millennia-old caste is a daily cruelty in many parts of the country, sparking intermittently into violence.
- Where religious extremism continues to trigger futile provocation and retaliation.
- Where divisiveness based on language and ethnicity sputters on, turning people into 'insiders' and 'outsiders' in their own country...and leading to bursts of violence, either to break away from India or to create smaller states with narrower and narrower identities.
- Where age-old oppressions lead the no-hopers to call themselves Maoists or Naxalites and perpetrate indiscriminate violence that doesn't in any way bring them hope.
India needs -
Economic progress.
Population control.
Universal education.
Universal health care.
Decisive action against corruption.
And innumerable other basics, like pavements which people can climb and walk on without risk of requiring orthopaedic attention.
BUT AS A BASIS FOR ALL THIS INDIA'S PEOPLE NEED AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE REAL SPIRIT OF NATIONHOOD.
(For more INSIGHT stories see other blogs here and www.myspace.com/india_realities) My latest blog at Myspace is: THE BEAUTIFYING EFFECT OF GLOBALIZATION.