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States taking measures to protect their ethnicity and treating other settlers as outsiders poses a cultural and demographic challenge

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tremor of magnitude 6 or more could lead to the dam collapsing and threatening its structure thus causing serious concern to the 50 lakh people who live downstream; tremors in the vicinity of the dam have been noted recently.

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The High Court in Gujarat has recently declared Hindi to be a “foreign language” where Gujaratis are concerned. The reason cited is that state-run primary schools teach in Gujarati. Farmers from Junagadh were objecting to a notification published by the National Highways Authority of India concerning the widening of a national highway. The notification had been published in Hindi which the farmers claim is unintelligible to them.

Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India for simple conversational purposes, thus making it India’s lingua franca. However, that does not mean that people outside the Hindi region can read official documents in Hindi. Widely-spoken Hindi has absorbed words from Turkish, Persian. Arabic and English. It is the language of the Hindi movies. Movie Hindi (or call it Hindustani or Urdu) is widely understandable in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Another such interstate quarrel is the Madhei River diversion dispute between Goa and Karnataka. The westflowing Mhadei river, which reaches the sea in Goa as the Mandovi River, has its headwaters in Karnataka. It is Goa’s lifeline in that water-deficient state. Karnataka has initiated work on the Kalasa-Bandura Nala project which proposes to supply drinking water to several cities (Hubli-Dharwar, Belgaum and Gadag) in Karnataka.

The plan involves building barrages across the Kalasa and Banduri tributaries and diverting water to the eastflowing Malaptabha River. By reversing the natural direction of flow, Goa would be deprived of the Madhei water.

When the current Maharashtra Assembly MLAs took their oath, a Samajwadi Party member Abu Azmi was attacked by Raj Thackeray, leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Party for not taking his oath in Marathi, but in Hindi.

When the current Maharashtra assembly MLA’s took their oath, a Samajwadi Party member Abu Azmi was attacked by Raj Thackeray, leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Party for not taking his oath in Marathi but in Hindi. Raj Thackeray had sometime earlier been attacking Hindispeaking Biharis for coming to Mumbai.

The Mullaperiyar dam was built 116 years ago. Following the reorganisation of states on a linguistic basis, the dam got located in Kerala but continued to provide large quantities of water to Tamil Nadu.

The Kerala and Tamil Nadu governments are in dispute about the dam. An Empowered Committee (EC), led by the former Chief Justice of India, A.S. Anand, is looking into the issue. The Kerala government has asked the Empowered Committee to demand that the Tamil Nadu government lower the storage level of the dam from 136 ft. to120 ft. till a new dam is constructed.

The reason cited by Kerala is that a

On the 9th of December 2011, a devastating fire ripped through AMRI which is an upmarket hospital in Kolkata claiming 90 lives. The managerial staff of the hospital were arrested. But also arrested were some members of the board of the company that ran the hospital. These all happened to be Marwaris, an immigrant group from Rajasthan, who have made Kolkata their home for generations.

Amongst these are six individuals who claim not to have anything to do with the day-to-day running of the hospital. They pleaded not to be sent to jail. The FICCI (The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry), India’s peak industrial body, appealed to the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, to arrange for their release but she has refused ob the grounds that the law should take its course.

Marwaris now feel insecure in West Bengal and have begun to resign from company directorships. This could drive a long-settled entrepreneurial community out of the state.

If every Indian state treats Indians who do not belong to the ethnic communities of that state as outsiders, then the protagonists of chauvinism will have won.