When we would be plain simple Indians?

I really wonder when we will be called only as Indians. We are today a SC,ST, Dalit, Gujjar,Kurmi, Jat,Meena,Bhumiar,Bhramin,Kshatriya and what not but not Indians. We are Hindus, Muslims, Sikh, Christians, Parsis and what not but not Indians . Furthermore we are below poverty line, lower middle class, Middle middle class, upper middle class, upper class, creamy layer and all but still not an Indian. If this was not enough we are Biharis, Punjabis, Bengalis etc still not Indians. The list will go on.

It aches and aches a lot to see that we live by the segmentation done by our dear politicians who can get annoyed for not getting there share for the large birthday cakes they plan for their birthday bash so that they are justified to snuff off life of so called misbehaving person. I am not trying to isolate anyone but this was one of the bizarre case just could not get off my mind. So the biggest colonial legacy still remain in our times “Divide and rule”.

Who is to be blamed? For sure I do not hint to the politicians , it is we the common citizens are to be blamed to get carried away with this kind of ploy so that these people keep on ruling us and rightly consider us there foolish slaves. I am sure they must me having a heart full of laugh .

Things will only change and the actual development work will only happen if government start looking at entire chunk as Indians. Any policy for poor will be good enough for all the poor people all across the above segments. There will be less no of policy to concentrate on hence the effectiveness of the implementation of the policy which could also be monitored better. There are even lot of by-products of this approach too like peace and harmony comes almost free with this. India probably reached the ideal state what this world is now trying to reach that is “Peace and harmony everywhere”. What we know now is Indians are just like cake and the destiny of the cake are to be cut in pieces as small as possible so that it can be eaten at ease and for long. I guess the symbolic representation in the birthday bash with a large cake which our leaders like to show us, sorry mock at us.