Did you ever watch how toddlers get their whims accepted by their parents? They shout, they cry, they make unbearable noise with whatever they have in their hands and finally either out of embarassment or out of pity or out of frustration or out of appeasement mom and dad will bow to their kids wishes.
Did you ever know a kid who does not make much fuss about anything and still gets granted everything he asks for? I don't know any.
What is the moral of this story?, unless you make noise, your interests will go unnoticed.
Iam observing the same phenomenon worldwide on various occasions.Some samples
a)Everytime a hindu god is painted on a underwear or on sandals,I have heard instances of cases being filed in courts of US and Europe and judgements being favourable to the petitioners. But these instances keep repeating now and then.
However when Danish cartoon row erupted, worldwide muslims raised the hue, staged protests, conducted marches, some issued violent warnings and everyone took notice of this. People objected this kind of behavior but I bet, anytime in future if anybody plans anything of this nature against muslim symbols, he will think 100 times. Similar situation has developed in India wherein other minorities like christians and buddhists become unimportant when considering policy decisions for minorities.
b)In the fedral structure that prevails in India, by raising hue and cry about the partiality of the central government or by repeated requests/threats some states garner more funds than others. For exmaple Andhra Pradesh it seems garners most of the flood relief declared by central government from time to time. Likewise I read somewhere that Tamilnadu gets about 60% of the funds allocated for new highways. I have never heard a drought prone and cyclone prone state like Orissa either demanding for greater funds or getting allocated with greater funds.
c)In any Hindi movie 99.9% of the time, when you see a south Indian character, it will be a Tamilian.To many northerners in India, as well as to outsiders, a south Indian implies a Madrasi and south Indian language implies Tamil.
Inspite of the distaste that exists towards the linguistic fervour shown by Tamilians Some of my learned friends also pay tributes to Tamilians for being so vehement in upholding their culture and language.You can love them or hate them but cannot ignore them. Why is this? Go and search for material on anti-hindi protests, anti-english protests in Tamilnadu.
What if Kannadigas or Telugus are accommodative of other languages and cultures, they are ignored.
What will happen if everyone starts making noise for everything they want to achieve?
World will not be a nice place to live in. Hence please, please look around for nice people and consider their silent grievences and concerns.
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