Re: seeking justice

I strongly disagree with the argument that many positive things
happened to telangana since independence (Other than Hyderabad and the
outskirts of course where most of the 50% industrialization took
plave). I hail from Warangal and recently( January this year) visited
my ancestral village in Warangal and Nalgonda district( my maternal
ancestral village)
My village Gopalpuram near Narasampet for those of you familiar with
the district has some of the fertile lands in Warangal district and I
was surprised to see the abject poverty in my village. The one reason
is draught but that is not the only reason. I talked to the village
elders and they said that even when we had drought before we had ground
water atleast for one crop. The last few years(except this year) they
did not have ground and the main reason is that water is being diverted
to other regions of state and the gates to the Kakatiya canal are not
being opened so that other regions can have water.
While I agree with the fact that we live in a world of limited
resources what justice is this when one region can get more water while
the people from other regions are completely cut out of these scarce
resource. When you state that this is cheap propaganda and only looks
at negative side, what positive view should the people from my village
should take. Should they be happy that the other districts are enjoying
the few resources that go through the district? It is very easy to
criticize the others view points but please try to gauge the depth of
the plight what the farmers in Telangana are going through.
The state of the village I visited in Nalgonda is worse. I lived in
Vishakhapatnam for 2 years and visited the villages there during my
trip. Even though the situation is not as good as it was in 1990's, it
is still not as bad as the villages in telangana

I see more sectarian stupidity now than in years before and I believe
education is not bringing down the barriers but increasing them- Most
of the people I know have post graduate degrees here and the divide
between communities is much greater now than before when i graduated
from my school.
Industrialization, reducing the dependence on agriculture are all noble
causes but what about today? How can you have any propaganda that
unites when we are truly divided between the haves and have-nots where
the people in power, the ones who truly hold the power the
administrators, are from the other regions and they refuse to do
anything for Telangana. The only way this to stop everyone has to make
an effort to equally distribute the scarce resources and truly try to
understand the problems and not just shoot down the viewpoints from the
other side

Ramana

Ramana Muppalla wrote:
> I simpathize with the plight of the farmers and poor in Telangana, I also
> would like to remind as many farmers died due to suicides in so called
> fertile Andhra region and Rayalaseema region. It is unfortunate that during
> drought farmers are resorting this due to abject poverty. Damn it! it is
> still the drought that is the reason and nothing else.
>
> Other than Krishna, part of Guntur and Godavari districts all other
> districts in AP are water scarcity districts. In some districts it is accute
> and in some other districts has water for drinking.
>
> This video is just propganda material. It has cloogy logic by just taking
> the negative side of the story. There are many positive things that happened
> to Telangana since independence.
>
> While the video takes the examples of Mahaboobnagar district, it forgets to
> take the examples of development happended to districts like Rangareddy,
> Nizamabad and Khammam(This is almost as fertile as Krishna dt.). Warangal is
> also moderately developed.
>
> It also forgets to compare the industral strengths of Telangana to even so
> called rich Andhra. Roughly 50% of the AP's industrialization happened in
> Telangana region.
>
> Read the 2020 vision by Abdul Kalam. As per research, the water is limited
> no matter what we do. The maximum we can do is distribute it evenly and
> manage it properly. This really takes time. It took more than 50 years in
> most developed nations.
>
> The bottomline is to maximize the industrilization and discorage the
> population from dependence on Agriculture as a long term plan and on a short
> term help the farmers with subsidies and group farming. There should be
> serious discouragement of going for cash crops by small farmers. Also
> farming should be corprotized with shares and investments etc.
>
> There are political failures across the state and country as well w.r.t
> farming. There are deaths in West Godavari district too. Maharastra, Orissa
> are also affected due to drought. Unfortunately farmers died everywhere.
>
> This is cheap propaganda of targeting the another regions innocent people
> for the plight of the poor in one region who all in the end has blood
> relations since ages.
>
> I would love to see any propaganda that unites people even in distress
> rather that that divides. This is pure cheap from educated folks.
>
> I hope after doing such a great strides in education people from AP will
> rise against the sectarian stupidity and find solutions to the problems.
>
> -Ramana