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India: Regional Chauvinism Growing And No
One To Stop It! -- Global Voices Online
One To Stop It! -- Global Voices Online
Terrorism and nationalism on a regional scale are now spreading in India. The latest region which appeared in the headlines is the state of Maharashtra. Right wing politician Raj Thackeray had so far been mostly using only words to promote regional chauvinism and threatening non-Maharashtrian people who are living and working in Maharashtra; some of them living there for generations!! There have been some isolated incidents of violence in the past few months but nothing big. But all that, as per Thackeray, was just a trailer of the movie. The real deal came out a couple of days back when the goons of various political parties, like Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena (the political party & self appointed moral police from which Raj defected to start his own political party), came out and beat up every North Indian youth they can lay their hands on, reports Nitish [hi].
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My Comment: A billion plus people. Numerous ethnic, religious, and social groups. A perfect soup for conflict, social and economic breakdown, and continuous war. And India is one of the more stable countries in the region.