Stretching to ludicrous lengths

I have no quarrel with the demand for separate Telangana. In another blog, I had lamented that this did not happen earlier. But the movement is being taken from the serious to the ludicrous. KCR's statement that 'Telengana' is different from 'Telugu' and his objections to the statues on the tank bund are the latest example. Any student of etymology will know that a language spawns local dialects due to the local practices, interaction with other languages, influence of court language, migration to and from other linquistic areas, etc. But, these are only dialects (Maandaleekamulu) and cannot aspire for language status. The Telugu spoken in Tirupati for example may be subtly different from the one spoken in Srikakulam and vice-versa but it cannot be a reason to them different languages.

There had been a raging controversy a few decades earlier whether Potana belonged to Ontimitta in Rayalaeema or Orugallu in Telangana. This was due to a sense of possessiveness and belonging and not due to rejection.

Everyone knows that earswhile state Hyderabad was ruled for long by various muslim dynasties and not only the court language was Urdu but the medium of instruction was Urdu. There was a keen competitiveness amongst the feudal hindus to curry favour with the ruling class due to which they started imitating them in dress and language. Also since the State, at that time, consisted of Kannada and Maratha speaking areas, it was a melting pot which all in synergy resulted in evolving a hybrid localised dialect which cannot be called a language.

Let us divide the state peacefully and amicably; but let us not divide the people. I have a ffew specific questions:

a) Why the demand for a separate state is confined only to that area which merged into Andhra Pradesh? Why TRS is not demanding all areas which constituted the earstwhile Hyderabad State?

b) If Telugu and Telangana are different, who are the icons of Telangana before the advent of British and Muslims?

c) What is the answer to the concept of Trilinga Desa? Is that also a conspiracy of Coastal Andhras?

d) Are there any examples for medevial literature in Telangana.

e) Why there is total rejection of the idea of separate Telangana State from the Muslims of Hyderabad? What is the stand of MIM on this?

f) Hyderabad is full of UP-ites, Biharis, Rajasthanis, Tamils, Gujatatis. What will be done with them?

g) In which party was KCR belonging to when the statues were being erected and for how many more years he was in that party? Did he object then?

Labelling people like Prakasam, CR Reddy, Veereslingam, Pratapa Reddy as belonging to a particular region is nothing short of blasphemy. They belong to the whole nation. Like-wise Molla Ramayanamu, Vemana Satakamu,Potana Bhagavatamu sre national heritage. Anything to the contrary is pettiness.

Speach is silver; silence is golden!

...Ponder