Thursday, January 06, 2011

Telangana 71: Tughlaqs of Modern India

When I was growing up there was a term used to insult someone.  The word ‘Tughlaq’ was used to call someone a dumb idiot and a fool.  Later on I got to know why the word ‘tughlaq’ became synonymous with a dumb idiot.   Long ago in 14th century, a king named Muhammad bin Tughlaq ruled over Delhi and he came up with a ridiculous idea to move his capital city from Delhi to Daulatabad (Devagiri) nearly 1500 km south into Deccan.  He forcibly moved his entire city population including cattle, from Delhi to Daulatabad. It was a major disaster.  Thousands died, millions became homeless and economy was in shambles.  Two years later, he moved the capital back to Delhi.  To the current generation, that episode in history sounds utterly foolish and comes as surprise.  One cannot believe that Tughlaq took such extremely nonsensical and unrealistic idea so seriously.   However, back in those times, kings and nobles went with such decisions and ordinary people paid price with their lives.

Many such foolish ideas came about in the past.  And we look back at them with wonder – not able to really grasp how people and leaders of that time could be so foolish.

One such event which we will recall later, fifty years from now, are the suggestions given by SriKrishna Committee.  We will wonder how they could think of such extremely ridiculous propositions.  Barring from suggesting that Hyderabad State should be made a part of Pakistan, they touched upon every other ridiculous idea.  Here I discuss two of them:

Option 2: Bifurcation of the State into Seemandhra and Telangana; with Hyderabad as a Union Territory and the two States developing their own capitals in due course. 

Why should Hyderabad be made Union Territory? Is there a historical precedent for a state which has a hole inside its map?  Look at the map of Telangana with Hyderabad as Union Territory.

Why do most Union Territories eventually become states? And not the other way round? Why do states NOT prefer Presidential rule? Do these stupid people who clamor for Union Territory status for Hyderabad realize that they will be under President’s rule forever? Do they realize that they will end up with a city that cannot grow without cooperation of Telangana? [Chandigarh works only because both Punjab and Haryana cooperate with Chandigarh because of vested interests]  Members of esteemed Srikrishna Committee should  have studied history of Union Territories in India and understood the status of areas which are completely surrounded by another region before they made this suggestion.

Option 6: Keeping the State united by simultaneously providing certain definite Constitutional / Statutory measures for socio-economic development and political empowerment of Telangana region – creation of a statutorily empowered Telangana Regional Council

The Modern Tughlaqs, the members of Srikrishna Committee, want to repeat history.  When something doesn’t work for 54 years, people with wisdom do not prescribe the same for another 50 years.  Constitutional measures did not work for Telangana.  Article 371(D) was scrapped.  Gentlemen’s Agreement nullified.  Mulki Rules diluted.  Supreme Court decisions revoked.  Promises broken.  GOs unimplemented.  Telangana people were ridiculed and suppressed and when rose in agitation, shot like birds.  Tughlaq, if he was alive, would not have recommended this.  A Regional Standing Committee was prescribed in 1956 in Gentlemen’s Agreement, which was slowly stripped of all powers and then discarded into dustbin of history.   What kind of idiots would propose the same solution that has not clearly worked for nearly half a century in spite of support from Supreme Court of India?  How do they think it will work this time?  Which idiot would have the guts to propose the very same that has been rejected by history of our times?

It’s unfortunate that I met these folks (Committee members) when I made a presentation to them.  They were quite silent when I spoke to them.  I didn’t know if they were contemplating or if they were so thick that they were just not getting it.  They asked some dumb questions – I didn’t know if they were acting dumb or were actually dumb.  Now I know.   From now on, in Telangana, we will not be calling the dumb idiots Tughlaqs anymore.  We will be calling them Srikrishnas [with apologies to other Srikrishnas who are not dumb idiots].

71 comments:

  1. Sujai, like Green Star why don't you provide solutions to the concerns raised in Option 5? Calling people "dumb" , "Tughlaq", "SriKrishnas" won't take us anywhere.

    (In any case, the Srikrishna's have rejected Hyderabad as UT and concluded that only Option5&6 are viable.)

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  2. Wow!!

    Good one!!

    How about 'SKC bin Tughlaqs'. I wish they were there during separate Andhra from Madras Residency.

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  3. Barring from suggesting that Hyderabad State should be made a part of Pakistan, they touched upon every other ridiculous idea.

    The Modern Tughlaqs, the members of Srikrishna Committee, want to repeat history

    Tughlaq, if he was alive, would not have recommended this.

    We will be calling them Srikrishnas


    I was completely embarrassed in front of my whole work team when I couldn't control laughing after reading this.

    I still dont understand why they took the option of 'Rayalatelangana'. Is it really an option?

    And look at the option four, most disgusting, they want to strip out all the well developed, has some water resources areas from Telangana and make a cartoon like UT.

    Some times KCR dialogs makes sense ....శ్రీ కృష్ణ కమిటి ఒక దిక్కు మాలిన కమిటి

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  4. How about 'SKC bin Tughlaqs'. I wish they were there during separate Andhra from Madras Residency.

    I am sure if Bin Tughlaqa alive. he feel really bad for comparing him with this SKC members.

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  5. Telanganas got tricked. History is repeating again.

    I dont think anything will happen until next election, which will be in 2014 or to whatever date Jagan expedites it to.

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  6. Update from Telangana (through SMS):

    "Police firing at OU campus. More than 70 students injured and Police fired 300 rounds. Media is not covering the incident"

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  7. More than 70 students injured and Police fired 300 rounds.

    I am soooo angry, I really dont know what to say.

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  8. TOTAL MEDIA BLACKOUT.
    God are we living in Burma or Northkorea, Shame to call ourselves a Democracy , WTF is wrong with our media, while there is a war going on( more like a Slaguhter) Andhra media is reporting cheesy discussions.
    TOTAL MEDIA BLACKOUT.

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  9. BREAK THE MEDIA BLACKOUT.

    forward this As SMS or Tweet it

    TELANGANA WAR BEGINS : FIRING at OU CAMPUS 500 rubber bullets fired , 350 Tear gas Shells lobbed, Total media BLACK OUT

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  10. TOTAL MEDIA BLACKOUT.

    what about Raj News? Is it down too?

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  11. @Karim

    Raj news is covering but as OU Campus is in total LOCK DOWN, only as Scrolling no video, apparently some Chanells aired the Video inside campus but the footage was taken down after sometime.

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  12. Its a shame that Home Minister, Sabita Reddy, who hails from Telangana, is overseeing the shooting of students in the OU Campus. It sould be noted that her husband Indra reddy raised the Telangana issue after he came out of Naidu's TDP. He forgot about it as soon as he joined the Congress and got ministership.

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  13. These CRPF personell were directly Deployed from areas like Kashmir and Chattisgarh,Jharkhand. These people are "trigger happy" so expect casualities.

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  14. More than 70 students injured and Police fired 300 rounds.

    I hope these are just roumers.

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  15. Great for our great andhra Media AK KHAN is acting as the only reporter.

    He is claiming that only 15 rounds were fired, 3 students injured, 23 police injured, 4 buses burnt.

    Great reporting AK Khan.

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  16. BREAK THE MEDIA BLACKOUT.

    forward this As SMS or Tweet it

    TELANGANA WAR BEGINS : FIRING at OU CAMPUS 500 rubber bullets fired , 350 Tear gas Shells lobbed, Total media BLACK OUT

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  17. wiki,

    which channel is reporting????

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  18. 15 CRORE of public money was spent on these SKC dick heads, they were treated like royalty, They travelled in "style", a convoy of honda civic cars. What they come up with, IDIOTS.

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  19. Dear Mr. Sujai,

    Quite often, it comes as a great surprise to me to see people becoming narrow minded, congested and partial when it comes to matters that have a personal connection but otherwise so matured and open minded. If the root cause foo telangana state agitation is its development and cultural identity, option 4 suggested by the commission fulfills it.
    1 - As part of economically rich Hyderabad, backward districts Nalgonda and Mahaboobnagar can see great deal of development.
    2 - With just 6 districts as part of Telangana state, it also becomes easy to concentrate on the development of those districts.
    3 - Neither of the Telangana or the proposed UT will be under the rule of Andhra politicians which secures the identity of it.

    In addition to these, this proposal gives all the three regions a secured and impartial access to the Hyderabad city.

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  20. @Lavanya Rajnews is Scrolling other Channels aired video for some time but removed them.

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  21. 1 - As part of economically rich Hyderabad, backward districts Nalgonda and Mahaboobnagar can see great deal of development.

    First of all some one tell me, why HYD needs to be made UT? Why HYD shouldn't be included in TG state?


    If you see clearly, they want to carve out the well developed areas from those districts along with HYD. These areas are either well industrialized/developed or the areas have significant seemandras investments. All I can say is, this new UT will be became a new colony of Seemandra.

    Why you propose only the areas of TG to include in UT, why not Krishna, Guntur, Vijaz etc shouldn't be included into UT?

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  22. The Standard Issue rifles of CRPF are:

    INSAS.

    SLR (semi-auto FN-FAL).

    AK-47.

    just google Instructional manual or operating manual for these rifles.

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  23. My god the rabidness has to stop here. There is nothing happening in OU. I am typing out of there and I am a seema-andhra guy supporting seemanadhra,

    In fact we are the discriminated lot in OU.

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  24. Some clarifications

    There was rubber bullet firing and use of tear gas shells happened.

    But I sit within OU campus and write this.

    But otherwise everything is OK. I am still writing this and having tea outside.

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  25. @Venu So IS DGP making up stories about Violence in OU.

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  26. CALL UPON TELANGANA CABLE ASSOCIATION TO BLOCK ALL TELUGU NEWS CHANNELS EXEPT RAJ , ZEE AND HMTV

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  27. @Venu
    <<<My god the rabidness has to stop here. There is nothing happening in OU.


    OOOh really, So why OU is in LOCK DOWN, Why are not they allowing News reporters inside Campus, Is the Commissioner AQ Khan the only Journalist in town to give updates about situation in OU.

    This is what happens when Media and Govt go hand in glove and try to BLOCKADE INFORMATION, RUMORS WHETHER TRUE OR FALSE SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRES.

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  28. Well Said Sujai,
    "Tughlaqs" is the best word to define these guys. The way this committee behave while gathering the info looked so professional , but end of the day it turned out to be the 'stupidest' report I have ever seen from these 'Tughlaqs'.

    Once again Well said Sujai.

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  29. In fact we are the discriminated lot in OU.

    Tasting your own cooked soup. I am really sorry for you :(

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  30. RT @india_uk: @Mepraneeth13 no media is covering telangana movement. Students condition critical in Osmania university.hyderabad/india


    Via http://twitter.com/Mepraneeth13

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  31. 40 students injured..1 died in osmania university

    ... from an unconfirmed tweet.

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  32. http://twitter.com/Mepraneeth13

    This looks like it is discussing a film. Where is the real thing?

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  33. Muslims in Hyderabad, who constitute 41% of the population in the metropolis, do not want a separate state of Telangana to be created, the Srikrishna Panel said noting that they would feel more secure in the larger state of united Andhra Pradesh.

    Read more: Srikrishna report: Muslims in Hyderabad oppose separate Telangana state - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Srikrishna-report-Muslims-in-Hyderabad-oppose-separate-Telangana-state/articleshow/7231274.cms#ixzz1AHReLqMB

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  34. @Sripal Sama
    one of the main reason for merger is for bringing the under developed T to bring up with relatively developed rest of R,A. On a large scale that being achieved, then asking for a de-merger I feel T doing injustice by discarding rest.

    At the time of gentlemen agreement it was also told hyd can be common capital for both if had to de-merg so why is that looks odd to T?

    Hyd as UT and common capital can only be option that can bring up all together for de-merger else its deadlock for separate T.

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  35. http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23telangana


    Twitter feed on TG.

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  36. At the time of gentlemen agreement it was also told hyd can be common capital for both if had to de-merg so why is that looks odd to T?

    No such thing was told.

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  37. At the time of gentlemen agreement it was also told hyd can be common capital for both if had to de-merg so why is that looks odd to T?

    At the time of gentlemen agreement, Mulki rules is the way to go in Telangana, so why is that looked odd to Seemandra in 1972?

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  38. Why you propose only the areas of TG to include in UT, why not Krishna, Guntur, Vijaz etc shouldn't be included into UT? //

    Thats because Hyderabad with those districts togather makes it a common border to all the three regions and there by makes it sense to have a common capital.

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  39. Hyderabad Muslims and rayala seema says: "Add 4 more districts to telangana. We will be majority. We can propose the bill right away in assembly".

    Telangana says "People of these 4 districts dominate people of 10 telangana districts. By the way our politicians can make money only if the issue is prolonged. We do not want your support in assembly. We do not want your support in parliament"

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  40. Thats because Hyderabad with those districts togather makes it a common border to all the three regions and there by makes it sense to have a common capital.

    In other way to say is for convince to Seemandra to reach there capital, telangan needs to sacrifice its richest areas. By the way if you add Nizamabad and Adilabad, then you get a shortcut to reach Mumbai and other north India places. Or if we include Krishna and Guntur into Telangana, then Telangana will get the coastal access.

    I am too getting many crazy ideas.

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  41. Before insulting Justice Sri Krishna and other eminent people, look at your pathetic self. For what they achieved, they do not even deserve to give you a minute of their life. Your hate-based posting for not toeing to your stand is disgusting. What is your credibility and culture? They were doing a govt job as you hate mongerers do not stop burning public property and taking a state hostage.

    Yes, they must be dumb for listening to you and other idiots who spoke everything based on lies and hatred. If you are not happy, shut your life in India and follow MFHussain to Qatar.

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  42. Those who are not happy with the way things are in India, should 'proudly' move to any country can take them. Shut up and put up or just leave!!! Central govt will make a decision... put up with it if you want to be in India or just leave. We do not want traitors.

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  43. Your hate-based posting for not toeing to your stand is disgusting.

    should 'proudly' move to any country can take them. Shut up and put up or just leave!!!

    Doesnt this guy talking about himself? .... I think so. I will wait for him to pack his bags to leave Qatar.

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  44. @Green Star and T supporters:

    You can disagree with the report and demonstrate peacefully... but ANY burning of public property will not be tolerated. Police should shoot people who destroy or burn them. If you are not happy with Indian govt decision, take your lives elsewhere.

    UPA should firmly go by SKC recommendation and deal law and order problems with iron hand.

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  45. @Aravind .... Thank you Aravind .. I agree with you. What you said applies to andhrites too. If they don't like what telanganites do in telangana please pack your .. sorry.. 'proudly' pack your bags and leave telangana ... i will not ask you to go Qatar or will not ask you to follow MFH...

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  47. @Aravind.. Well, those who can't tolerate telanganites can leave telangana NOW period..... same what you said.. Can't you see three fingers pointing at you.

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  48. @Orugallu:

    We are Indians... we can live anywhere in India. We support any decision the democratically elected govt takes.

    Now, will you live by these rules?

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  49. but ANY burning of public property will not be tolerated.

    Stealing others jobs will be tolerated, stealing others water will be tolerated, stealing others resources will be tolerated. But burning of public property will not be tolerated. So much for democracy ....

    Any , if you stop your ranting here, we want to deal with these 'iron hand' to see who got that 'iron hand'. Say good luck to us.

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  50. We support any decision the democratically elected govt takes.

    Yup, we need to learn how to blackmail the central govt with mass resignation drams to step down from there decision (like how the seemandras palyed after dec-9 statement).

    The one who do not obey the govt decision, came here to teach us the manners.

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  51. WE really feel vindicated.Actually you and your blog were the inspiration for us to fight for United AP,even though we are from Telangana.We felt people like you would run the show and destroy our region.Our voice has been heard! Actually some ideas like Nalgonda and MBNR stemmed from blogs like your which were represented adequately by us.Atleast some gratification.Thanks Sujai.
    BTW by using Tughlaq example you've offended the Muslim community on which you feign affection.Tughlaq was one of the finest administrators India ever had.He was an epitome of tolerance.

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  52. >>BTW by using Tughlaq example you've offended the Muslim community on which you feign affection.

    Now, go and **** yourself saying we offended Muslims. Who cares ....

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  53. Green Star:
    "Yup, we need to learn how to blackmail the central govt with mass resignation drams to step down from there decision (like how the seemandras palyed after dec-9 statement)."

    who blackmailed with fake hunger strike, bandhs lies and hatred that led to dec 9 statement? we all know who has been playing dramas since 2009. I am from Telangana and I do not want my region to be gripped in violence. Now, do NOT make judgements that I am from Hyd. I was born in Nalgonda and educated in Karminagar. Don't insult fellow T people who disagree with ur opinion. I am an Indian and I do NOT believe all T people SHOULD support T state. The T-state supporters have been heard and a solution has been proposed. In the true spirit of democracy, accept that everyone does not get all they want.

    The Bangalore settler should be ashamed of waging war on India while remaining on sidelines. If the T-state fanatics have an iota of self-respect, they should abandon their families, green pastures and struggle for T state ON SOIL with other people... not on internet. See where the fight with Indian police will land you.

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  54. who blackmailed with fake hunger strike

    This is another example of your ignorance. I dont think central govt was afraid of this less popular(got only 10 MLAs) leader. Every one knows about his fake hunger strike, and how he ended this on second day and how he forced to continue when TG people were angry at him.

    I was born in Nalgonda and educated in Karminagar.
    This is an old trick and we board with it. Come up with other new one.

    In the true spirit of democracy, accept that everyone does not get all they want.
    If democracy works then it listens the over 20laks garghana, than 2000 people garghana.

    Four out of six solutions are talking about bifurcation, that means we are at winning side. Status Quo is out of option by SKC.

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  55. Aravind:

    The Bangalore settler should be ashamed of waging war on India while remaining on sidelines.

    We are not waging war on India. We are fighting for our self-rule within the legal confines of Indian Constitution. We are fighting for tabling the Bill in the Parliament according to Article 3 of Indian Constitution.

    If the T-state fanatics have an iota of self-respect, they should abandon their families, green pastures and struggle for T state ON SOIL with other people... not on internet.

    Why is it that only the detractors of Telangana Movement are bothered by where we live? Why should it bother you if we have abandoned our families or not. Is there a rule that only the people who have abandoned their families can struggle for a cause? It’s childish to expect something like that.

    You should do better than this to elicit serious responses in future.

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  56. Anonymous:

    WE really feel vindicated.Actually you and your blog were the inspiration for us to fight for United AP,even though we are from Telangana.

    Many settlers are posing as Telanganas these days and gave their reports to the Committee. Clever trick. Looks like it really worked because those in the Committee were a bunch of dumb idiots.

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  57. Aravind:

    UPA should firmly go by SKC recommendation and deal law and order problems with iron hand.

    When are where required Seemandhras have launched into bus burning, train burning, clashing with police, and destroying public and private property.

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  58. http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2011/01/3798

    The Srikrishna Committee Report: A Waste of Time

    Srikrishna Committee report while retaining the status quo has sought to disprove the claims of most Telangana protagonists. It makes no specific recommendations and has thrown the ball back to the politicians to decide

    Mohan Guruswamy Delhi

    The long awaited Srikrishna Committee report is finally out. It makes no specific recommendations and has thrown the ball squarely back to the politicians to decide. Thus, even though it was completed in time, it has largely been a waste of time. All it did was to keep Telangana tempers bottled up for some months. Now be ready for the explosion.

    The Report's tendency is towards retaining the status quo with some palliatives to assuage the sentiment widespread in the Telangana area. To serve this end it has sought to disprove the claim of most Telangana protagonists that the Telangana region remained backward and under-developed even after more than half a century as a part of Andhra Pradesh. It has marshalled numbers and has used data to support its case.

    As a professionally qualified economist and policy analyst, I know very well that facts can be used to prove or disprove pretty much any proposition. The Srikrishna Committee has used the economist on board to good effect and he has done a pretty good job of what he obviously was tasked with. But what the good Dr Abusaleh Shariff misses is that the issue is not one of regions as much as it is about people. The essential grouse of the Telangana protagonists is that the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1956 was not adhered to and the people of Telangana were systematically excluded from the development process and were given short shrift in the political process.

    Two examples are all it takes to establish this. At the time of integration, it was promised that the Telangana would have a Regional Council that would oversee the development works and most importantly all land transfers. This was to ensure that wealthier migrants from the coastal Andhra region did not buy out the individually poorer people of Telangana. This has happened in every Telangana district where large migrant populations from coastal Andhra have bought up vast tracts of the best canal and tank irrigated lands. All around Hyderabad city people like Ramalinga Raju of Satyam accumulated thousands of acres of land. The migrants will argue that land was bought legally and everything was paid for. That is exactly what the Jewish settlers in occupied Palestine say.

    Now if the Srikrishna Committee spent some of its time studying who owned how much, it would have got a pretty good understanding of what the Telangana protagonists are really talking about. Instead it went out of its way to make a case that all was well in Telangana and that the area had done well. An area is about geography and a people's fears and aspirations are the stuff of politics.
    It was this fear of being swamped, widespread among Telangana people, which was very apparent to the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) (1953-55) headed by Justice S Fazal Ali. The SRC's recommendation is as follows: "the residuary State of Hyderabad might unite with Andhra after the General Elections likely to be held in about 1961, if by a two-thirds majority the Legislature of Hyderabad State expresses itself in favour of such a unification.

    contd..

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  59. The SRC also recommended that the residuary state should continue to be known as Hyderabad state and should consist of Telugu-speaking districts of the then princely state of Hyderabad, namely, Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda, Warangal (including Khammam), Karimnagar, Adilabad, Nizamabad, Hyderabad and Medak, along with Bidar district, and the Munagala enclave in the Nalgonda district belonging to the Krishna district of Andhra." This recommendation of the SRC was not heeded and it is the root of today's popular demand.

    Statistics are the essential truth. However much we might seek to misinterpret them they show up the reality in pretty stark terms. Water for agriculture has been a big issue for the people of Telangana. The region is home to two of India's greatest rivers, the Godavari and Krishna, yet canal irrigation accounts for little more than 10 per cent of the irrigated acreage. The area irrigated by private sources, such as wells and tube wells account for about 65 per cent of all irrigated acreage. Tanks which used to account for over 60 per cent of Telangana's irrigated acreage in 1956 now account for less than 5 per cent. In terms of state supported irrigation, even semi-arid Rayalaseema with 20 per cent under canal irrigation does much better than Telangana. By contrast over 50 per cent of the irrigated acreage in Coastal Andhra is by canals and another 15 per cent or so from tanks.

    Mind you water from canals and tanks comes free to the user, whereas well irrigation entails huge capital costs and recurring expenses. To rub salt into Telangana's wounds, a good part of the water from essentially Telangana projects like the giant Nagarjunasagar project is drawn away into Coastal Andhra.

    The Srikrishna Committee was constituted to examine issues that have led to widespread alienation in Telangana. Instead of doing that in an honest and dispassionate manner, it seeks to establish that the claim for a separate Telangana is without any economic or social basis. Its main recommendation is that a single state with some constitutional provision to assuage Telangana sentiments will suffice.
    The least the learned Judge should have known is that such constitutional arrangements will inherently be unconstitutional, if they are only applicable to one region. The Constitution is for the whole country, and what's good for the goose must be good for the gander.

    The sorry state of our democratic process is illustrated by the fact that despite the demand for a separate Telangana state being supported by all the elected representatives of the region and by every political party except the CPM, it is sought to be fobbed off taking recourse to the specious and nonsensical logic that the Naxalites will somehow take over Telangana in the end. If mal-governance becomes the only reason for the takeover by Naxalites, then it would seem the whole country is ripe for it.

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  60. "Why is it that only the detractors of Telangana Movement are bothered by where we live?"
    Same reason-why should it bother you when the people from the state live in Hyderabad.You are a settler yourself having no right to comment on other settlers.

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  61. "It’s unfortunate that I met these folks (Committee members) when I made a presentation to them. They were quite silent when I spoke to them. I didn’t know if they were contemplating or if they were so thick that they were just not getting it. They asked some dumb questions – I didn’t know if they were acting dumb or were actually dumb. Now I know. "
    That is the hallmark of real intellectuals not the 'empty vessel' pseudo-intellectuals Telangana boasts of.You think you are smart,there are people smarter than you.lol..

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  62. Anonymous:

    Same reason-why should it bother you when the people from the state live in Hyderabad.You are a settler yourself having no right to comment on other settlers.

    We have no problem with anyone living in Telangana. However, we do have a problem when the settlers outnumber the locals and then wean the city away from the region. If Karnataka breaks up into two, I would not get involved or if I do I would never attempt to wean away Bangalore from either of the regions to satisfy my selfish interests.

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  63. The region is home to two of India's greatest rivers, the Godavari and Krishna, yet canal irrigation accounts for little more than 10 per cent of the irrigated acreage. The area irrigated by private sources, such as wells and tube wells account for about 65 per cent of all irrigated acreage. Tanks which used to account for over 60 per cent of Telangana's irrigated acreage in 1956 now account for less than 5 per cent. In terms of state supported irrigation, even semi-arid Rayalaseema with 20 per cent under canal irrigation does much better than Telangana. By contrast over 50 per cent of the irrigated acreage in Coastal Andhra is by canals and another 15 per cent or so from tanks.

    The name of the problem is topography,geographical accident.

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  64. "We will be calling them Srikrishnas "
    Those who present senseless drivel and arguments and cannot convince a panel should be called 'sujais'

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  65. The 'settlers' who provoke and perpetrate lies and hatred towards other settlers in the name of 'aspirations' are called 'Sujais'.

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  66. Those sycophants who cannot think of their own,piggy back on opinions of others who never put their brains to use are called 'Aravind's .They are thousands of Aravinds in Telangana.

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  67. Those sycophants who cannot think of their own,piggy back on opinions of others who never put their brains to use are called 'Aravind's .They are thousands of Aravinds in Telangana."
    Sorry read Green Stars/Homer Simpsons in place of Aravind.Sorry typo.

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  68. Anonymous:

    If settlers are Telanganas and your grudge is not towards them ,why is their opinion damaging to you.

    It is a sad reality that migration happened only from Andhra to Telangana but not the reverse though the opportunities were more in Andhra after 1956. Telanganas were never welcome in Andhra and it is apparent even today. On the other hand, Telanganas were quite OK to have Andhras amidst them. Now the same Andhras who have migrated to Telangana misuse the hospitality to work against the locals. It is sad. The ilk of sera is no different.

    You should have had the foresight to pose as Seemandhra and send your report.

    Ha. You come out with your devious nature after all. That’s why we keep comparing these activists and the Committee members with Ramalinga Raju. Cooking up books, posing as Telanganas, etc, come easy, isn’t it?

    Hence the need to expose it. Read the post ‘Intellectual Dishonesty’ on this blog.

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  69. "Ha. You come out with your devious nature after all. That’s why we keep comparing these activists and the Committee members with Ramalinga Raju. Cooking up books, posing as Telanganas, etc, come easy, isn’t it?

    Hence the need to expose it. Read the post ‘Intellectual Dishonesty’ on this blog."
    If you can sniff 'devious' plans on the part of the Telanganas who have sent their comments against the bifurcation able to link them to Seemandhras posing as Telanganas you too have the plan. You cannot claim honesty while castigating the others.You should be honest with your comments too. Intellectual honesty applies to everyone. You cannot claim the other person robbed you meekly when you are capable of robbing him.

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  70. Why is that all s-h-i-t happens from OU, why not from KCR/Professor house. or KK or any other politician house.
    మన తెలంగాణ గొడవ డెవెలప్‌మెంట్ కాలేదు అని మొదలు ఐయి, ఇపుడు ఆత్మ గౌరమ్ వరకు వచింది. ఇంకా రేపు ఏమీ అంటారో? మా తాతా కి దావాత్ మీద ఉన్న ఇంట్రెస్ట్ మా అయ్యకి చదువుచెప్పించటం లో లేదు, కానీ మా అయ్య మాత్రం నాకు చదువు కావాలి అనుకున్నాడు. ఇప్పుడు నా బిడ్డ చదవకుండా university గోడవల్లో తిరుగుతున్నాడు. ఇది అంత మీ లాంటి చెత్త నయ్యాల పుణ్యం.
    After reading the report I understood one thing, in our region division between poor and rich is more and that gap is increasing. and you guys are not understanding that, you have crossed the point of accepting the truth on Telangana.

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  71. It is a sad reality that migration happened only from Andhra to Telangana but not the reverse though the opportunities were more in Andhra after 1956. Telanganas were never welcome in Andhra and it is apparent even today.
    Bhale cheptavanna. Appatlo mee nayakulu, ippudu mee Jayashankar gaaru andhrolo emi ledu annaru.
    Nuvvemo andhralone avakaasalu unnaiyantavu. Meeremo meme goppollam maaku ekkadako poye gati entani ani ikkade undi poyyaru. Em cheyyale?
    Now the same Andhras who have migrated to Telangana misuse the hospitality to work against the locals.
    Manintlo manaki aathithya emitanna? Asahyamgaa.

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