Laal Haraa I - Poem Hindustani - लाल हरा I / I - لال ہرا
Channel: owais sarvasukhsevaka
Date: 08/03/2013

This is the first of the new Hindustani trilogy of poems, which I wrote just this afternoon (8th Mar 2013).  Though not the continuation of the same story, the three share more than just the two colours.  

This first poem is about the unity of Indianness and the unity of humanity that is disrupted by the peddlers of dogma.  It is no secret that these dogma-peddlers create hate between artifically divided peoples.  However, no one is willing to take them on - a pusillanimity that is going to cost India dear - just like it did in 1947. 

'Artificially divided peoples'...  what do I mean by that?  I believe that the real divisions are geographic, even though the current cheap energy regime has allowed us to think that geography does not matter.  However, geography does matter.  Political unity is not long-term (several centuries), unless geography permits it.  

Case in point is the split of Pakistan and Bangladesh.  If Bangladesh were contiguous to West Pakistan, apart from the fact that the two cultures would ALSO have been contiguous, it would have been impossible for Mukti Bahini to deliver Mukti to the Bengalis, for reasons of geographical proximity to, and thus ease of operations for, the top-dog regime (Pakistan).  The wound have festered - flared and rested in turns - as it does in the cases of Baluchistan, Kashmir and Indian North-East; if the perceived injustices were not addressed effectively enough.

Equally, lands unseperated by major geographic barriers can typically not stay politically seperate for too long (several centuries).  Case in point is the Germanies, and even Europe.  I dare predict that over long-term, when at least some of the ridiculous dogmas ruling the roost today have died their natural death, (or evolved into something else that goes by the same name, but will be unrecognizable today) the line dividing the two Punjabs and the two Bengals will shift away to align better with the nearby geographic barriers.

Apart from the geographic division, all other divisions are 'artificial'.  These can be changed: given up voluntarily (religious community), through effort (raising of economic class, learning local language), coerced away (lowering of economic class through political means) etc.