The one with divisions

So yesterday, I was having a chat with my mother when I came across the Cavery watersupply issue happenning in India right now. Since my sister and brother-in-law were supposed to travel to Bangalore today, I told my mother to inform of the tiring time and curfew in the area. By evening when I was speaking with my other sister, she told me that they had postponed the plan for another week and there was a strong disagreement for their visit in the unstable time. My mother filled me in on the issue about the river and the rest of it I got to know for my faithful google. Fast forward to this morning, I got a catch up message from one of my juniors from high school studying in Bangalore; she mentioned in the conversation that her college was closed due to the protest happenning in the state. 

I have been having intensive French week in my college at the moment and I have a group of Indian collegues in the same class; after the class today we were asked to join the open ground for separating our group for tomorrow's field trip. When we were in the field one of the indian guy was speaking to other indian guy saying, "oh you forgot my name, didn't you?" to which the other guy replied, " ya, but i remember the state you are from." To my surprise all I said was,"Aren't you guys all from India?" to which he laughed and said, "Ya but India is big and there are so many states" To that all I could say was,"No one else from amongst yourself will remember which state you are from, they will only rememer your country 'India'".

Now shifting the gear towards Nepal. No one wants to admit it but we are divded in Nepal as well. Whether it be disparity based on caste, religion, richness or even gender. I do not know much about other sub culture but even within Newar community of Nepal, which happens to be my cultural niche, people are divided. There is one thing to be proud about your heritage but it is completely different thing to quote other different on the basis of it. 

I enjoy the fact that Nepal has all the beautiful cultures. All the different food, the literature, the dance, the music and the asthetic each one carries is beautiful in itself. As much as I am love eating newai food, I adore dancing to Tamangselo songs and listening to bhojpuri music. It would be nice if people could stop dividing themselves into social construct which stops them from achieving greater good. Preservation does not mean solidarity. Inside, all of us are bone and flesh, we feel sad when we are hungry or hurt and we all crave love. 

People should just stop fighting for what was something that was given to us, it is not something that you have chosen. The birds, the rivers and the winds cannot be stopped by the borders and divisions. What have we really achieved by creating these borders or accepting it? In this era of information, one really cannot remain ignorant. Its time and oppurtunity for us to choose, so lets choose wisely.