Oh how many people are killed in the process of ascertaining the rights of the sons of the soil?
With the recent rhetoric by trump regarding immigrants in USA I am getting more and more disillusioned with the idea that the human race has got a rational brain.
So I am the son of which soil?
At the present time legally I am in naturalized US citizen.
Previously I was an Indian citizen holding an Indian passport.
Even now I hold a OCI card which makes me an overseas citizen of India
my parent's were born in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu
I was born in Avanigadda, Krishna district in the present Andhra Pradesh state.
When I was three or four years old I moved along with my family to Warangal in the present state of Telangana.
I moved to New Delhi for my studies during residency in general surgery in all India Institute of medical sciences.
I reviewed in the Islamic Republic of Iran for about an year .
Isn't this latest agitation against citizenship amendment act ultimately boils down to the definition of who is the son of the soil?
The Kashmir agitation
The Assam agitation
The Telangana agitation
State of Andhra Pradesh, popularly designated as the 'Jai Telangana Movement'. Since the Gentlemen 's Agreement was destroyed by the majorities, the then— Congress-led State government adopted a diplomatic stance, offering assurances that non-TeIangana civil servants the region would be replaced by mulki,s dis- advantaged local people•, furthermore, revenue generated from the region would be returned to the region itself It is, however, ironic that the promises remained confined to paper. Dissatisfied by the developments, the people of the region took to violent techniques, With the agitation spreading. Simultaneously, the political elite of the Andhra region did not digest the corrective measures adopted by the central government. The subsequent years witnessed clashes between the sup- porters of the Jai Andhra and Jai Telangana movements. The leaders of the Jai Andhra movement demanded either doing away With the safeguards promised by the then—Congress-Ied State government to the people of Telangana, including the judgment of the Supreme court of India on the legality of mulki rules,6 or bifurcate Andhra Pradesh into Andhra and Telangana States. Yielding to this pressure, the government of India quashed almost all the protective measures promised to the people of Telangana, including the invalidation of the judgment of the Supreme court on mulki rules,' thus depriving them of their legitimate share in the fruits of development and denying them any opportunity to voice their grievances before the government in the political process. The so-called people's issues______
edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Lion König
The so-called people's issues The movement dynamics In recent years brings to the fore the concern of the common masses on matters affecting their daily lives. Whereas the movement of the 1960s divided people on linguistic grounds, the movement of the 1990s united them, as it were; now the cultural concerns seem to have been overtaken by the developmental ones. However, the concerns of Iow income groups have been sidelined in the process. The majority of the Telangana population, excluding Hyderabad, comprises the agricultural farmers whose livelihood revolves around the yearly produce from their lands, for which they are heavily dependent on the government for subsidies on fertiliser and in-igation facilities. Some of the reform policies led to a deterioration of the conditions of the poor farmers: withdrawal of subsi- dies, support prices, privatisation, and simultaneous increase in power tariffs, which create considerable difficulties to the farmers heretofore much dependent on government subsidy. Developmental policies have catered to the elite agri- business class, to the utter discontent of the millions of rural farmers. With the withdrawal of State subsidies on fertilisers, seeds, and Other inputs, the cost of cultivation went up drastically. To supplement for the losses incurred, the farm-ers took to growing commercial crops and a multi-crop system which was highly water intensive. Thus, the poor farmers became heavily dependent on bore wells and Other means of artificial water supply, which were extremely expensive and forced them to take Ioans, which increased their debts in the absence of the means to pay them off. The neo-liberal reforms led to open competition, With the
financial assistance to its supporters) created new intersections between popular movements and politics throughout India, including Telangana. Statehood movements are popularized today by regional parties fighting for the cause of local issues and increasing their competitive space in the State. This, however, does not mean that the national parties are indifferent or oppose the cause of new Statehood demands. The leadership of the Telangana movement was taken up by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), formed in 2001 under the leadership of K. Chandrasekhar Rao, whose primary agenda was the formation of a separate State of Telangana. The Congress party, however, showed an Interest in Telangana and created a favorable climate; in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party formed an alliance With T RS to obtain a stronghold in Andhra Pradesh, competing With the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). The Congress agreed to fast-forward the cre- ation of Telangana and even included it m the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) election manifesto. However, the UPA I could not further the cause of Telangana due to opposition from one of its allies, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)]. Considering it to be a betrayal of the partnership, the TRS withdrew from the alliance With Congress. The T DP took this opportunity to forge an alli- ance With TRS against the Congress State government. In the 2009 elections, the party manifestos of the Congress, BJP, and T RS spoke of development as the main slogan and the need for the creation of Telangana. The Congress party's national leadership was undecided on this issue until the end of its tenure 111 May
With the recent rhetoric by trump regarding immigrants in USA I am getting more and more disillusioned with the idea that the human race has got a rational brain.
So I am the son of which soil?
At the present time legally I am in naturalized US citizen.
Previously I was an Indian citizen holding an Indian passport.
Even now I hold a OCI card which makes me an overseas citizen of India
my parent's were born in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu
I was born in Avanigadda, Krishna district in the present Andhra Pradesh state.
When I was three or four years old I moved along with my family to Warangal in the present state of Telangana.
I moved to New Delhi for my studies during residency in general surgery in all India Institute of medical sciences.
I reviewed in the Islamic Republic of Iran for about an year .
Isn't this latest agitation against citizenship amendment act ultimately boils down to the definition of who is the son of the soil?
The Kashmir agitation
The Assam agitation
The Telangana agitation
State of Andhra Pradesh, popularly designated as the 'Jai Telangana Movement'. Since the Gentlemen 's Agreement was destroyed by the majorities, the then— Congress-led State government adopted a diplomatic stance, offering assurances that non-TeIangana civil servants the region would be replaced by mulki,s dis- advantaged local people•, furthermore, revenue generated from the region would be returned to the region itself It is, however, ironic that the promises remained confined to paper. Dissatisfied by the developments, the people of the region took to violent techniques, With the agitation spreading. Simultaneously, the political elite of the Andhra region did not digest the corrective measures adopted by the central government. The subsequent years witnessed clashes between the sup- porters of the Jai Andhra and Jai Telangana movements. The leaders of the Jai Andhra movement demanded either doing away With the safeguards promised by the then—Congress-Ied State government to the people of Telangana, including the judgment of the Supreme court of India on the legality of mulki rules,6 or bifurcate Andhra Pradesh into Andhra and Telangana States. Yielding to this pressure, the government of India quashed almost all the protective measures promised to the people of Telangana, including the invalidation of the judgment of the Supreme court on mulki rules,' thus depriving them of their legitimate share in the fruits of development and denying them any opportunity to voice their grievances before the government in the political process. The so-called people's issues______
Globalisation and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and ...
The so-called people's issues The movement dynamics In recent years brings to the fore the concern of the common masses on matters affecting their daily lives. Whereas the movement of the 1960s divided people on linguistic grounds, the movement of the 1990s united them, as it were; now the cultural concerns seem to have been overtaken by the developmental ones. However, the concerns of Iow income groups have been sidelined in the process. The majority of the Telangana population, excluding Hyderabad, comprises the agricultural farmers whose livelihood revolves around the yearly produce from their lands, for which they are heavily dependent on the government for subsidies on fertiliser and in-igation facilities. Some of the reform policies led to a deterioration of the conditions of the poor farmers: withdrawal of subsi- dies, support prices, privatisation, and simultaneous increase in power tariffs, which create considerable difficulties to the farmers heretofore much dependent on government subsidy. Developmental policies have catered to the elite agri- business class, to the utter discontent of the millions of rural farmers. With the withdrawal of State subsidies on fertilisers, seeds, and Other inputs, the cost of cultivation went up drastically. To supplement for the losses incurred, the farm-ers took to growing commercial crops and a multi-crop system which was highly water intensive. Thus, the poor farmers became heavily dependent on bore wells and Other means of artificial water supply, which were extremely expensive and forced them to take Ioans, which increased their debts in the absence of the means to pay them off. The neo-liberal reforms led to open competition, With the
financial assistance to its supporters) created new intersections between popular movements and politics throughout India, including Telangana. Statehood movements are popularized today by regional parties fighting for the cause of local issues and increasing their competitive space in the State. This, however, does not mean that the national parties are indifferent or oppose the cause of new Statehood demands. The leadership of the Telangana movement was taken up by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), formed in 2001 under the leadership of K. Chandrasekhar Rao, whose primary agenda was the formation of a separate State of Telangana. The Congress party, however, showed an Interest in Telangana and created a favorable climate; in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress party formed an alliance With T RS to obtain a stronghold in Andhra Pradesh, competing With the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). The Congress agreed to fast-forward the cre- ation of Telangana and even included it m the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) election manifesto. However, the UPA I could not further the cause of Telangana due to opposition from one of its allies, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)]. Considering it to be a betrayal of the partnership, the TRS withdrew from the alliance With Congress. The T DP took this opportunity to forge an alli- ance With TRS against the Congress State government. In the 2009 elections, the party manifestos of the Congress, BJP, and T RS spoke of development as the main slogan and the need for the creation of Telangana. The Congress party's national leadership was undecided on this issue until the end of its tenure 111 May
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