What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
It would have been wonderful – that is my idea of India – if the country had developed faster economically and the north east had participated / benefited more fully from that process. While culture and language are precious and need to be preserved and nurtured, perhaps the economic dimension of this aversion to “ outsiders “ would have been more muted. However, that is in the realm of wishful thinking. There is a certain reality in the north east. Ms Patricia Mukhim has said in a recent column that emotional integration has not taken place with the rest of the country. Given these verities, more foresight and sensitivity were expected. For that matter, Kannadigas don’t like to see Hindi signage. Slow, gradual processes of integration and assimilation over decades can sometimes be suddenly reversed by hasty interventions.
It would have been wonderful – that is my idea of India – if the country had developed faster economically and the north east had participated / benefited more fully from that process. While culture and language are precious and need to be preserved and nurtured, perhaps the economic dimension of this aversion to “ outsiders “ would have been more muted. However, that is in the realm of wishful thinking. There is a certain reality in the north east. Ms Patricia Mukhim has said in a recent column that emotional integration has not taken place with the rest of the country. Given these verities, more foresight and sensitivity were expected. For that matter, Kannadigas don’t like to see Hindi signage. Slow, gradual processes of integration and assimilation over decades can sometimes be suddenly reversed by hasty interventions.
Only Muslim will speak like this to their leader well we don’t want you suwar