Re: Anti North Indian sentiments growing in India
What many people forget is that India has one of the most well thought out Constitution that clearly dilineates central and state jurisdictions. Indians in India have very little need or reason to rethink this organization structure. It is only the halfbaked and unbaked self-appointed klutzes from abroad, that too typically of origins from across the border who want to make every skirmish and protest in India into a "oh what shall India do to survive!".
Take even this very case in Mumbai - Raj Thackaray and company started this stir. Do you know what happened next? The taxi drivers in Mumbai got together protested AGAINST Thackaray for damaging taxis. Thackaray has had to start backtracking. It is that simple and that is how great democracies work.
A group becomes disgruntled about something, political leadership doesn't pay attention - the groups protests loudly until its complaint is heard and resolved.
If you go talk to anyone within India about 'implosion' and 'changing center-state items for better harmony' etc they will either look at you strangely or laught at you.
I know that's what I was saying in one of my previous posts and also in another thread that raised a similar question that the idea of a federalist type gov can't work in India because of the sheer volume and number of languages and subcultures from state to state because establishing a federalist type government would just cause each state to be a separate country of its own within India having absolutely nothing connecting it to other states.
But anyway, I think it was vineshvk, who had suggested that type of gov because he didn't like the idea of having Hindi as a national language along with English but he never went into detail on how exactly a federalist type gov would work in a place like India. I was just curious as to what his thoughts were :)