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By: Vijayshree Kurumilla
Time and again, the Samaikyandhra proponents would like us to believe that we are two brothers speaking the same language and that it is unemployed politicians who are causing the rift between the brothers. We had replied a lot of times, that in our more than five decades of living together, have you at any time behaved like a responsible brother and if you really did, would we have really sought separation from you.
Only when you feel that separation is imminent, you start a movement setting fire to your own properties, and cry yourself hoarse, that we should not listen to unemployed politicians and that we will resolve our problems amicably, but we should not separate.
But have you made any attempt, at resolving our grievances at any time, have you tried to go deep into the root cause of Telangana movement. If you say unemployed politicians, government employees, and students are the only ones who are supporting the movement, then I would ask, why these people are unemployed in the first place, have you at any time given them their rightful or fair share. Do you even know the meaning of fairness?
You are not getting off your high horse, to see, the pathetic state of your so called brother. You seem to be only gloating over his unending problems. You have pushed him against the wall, denied him every right and condemned him to the life of slavery. You have ridiculed his language, took away his dignity and finally when he revolted, used your powerful machinery to brutally crush the revolt.
Your greed knows no end and your selfishness reminds me of the story of two brothers, written by Guy de Maupassant under the title –‘Selfishness’.
Two brothers run a fishing boat, along with a crew of five and they go to the sea for fishing. Using a net which is tied to a heavy shank and cables, they stop the boat at places and gather a huge haul of fish. One day the boat runs into rough weather, but since the fishing boat is a sturdy one, they continue and lower the net at one place. In the process, due to the unpredictable movement of the high seas, the younger brother’s arm gets stuck in the cable which is used to lower the net.
The entire crew asks for the cable to be cut, but the elder brother insists that it should not be, as he fears losing the net, which was his property and which he thinks is expensive. They try hard at freeing the arm from the cable, but to no avail and the elder brother, is equally adamant, about not losing the costly net. The younger one is seething with pain and faints, yet the elder brother does not allow the cable to be cut. Finally, when they manage to free the younger brother, his arm is completely mangled and gangrene sets in resulting in him, cutting the arm with his own knife.
In the end the younger brother who is one armed, tells someone at the port, where he works, after quitting going to the sea, that, ‘If my brother had been willing to cut the cable, I should still have my arm, be sure. But he was looking to his own pocket.’
Our Samaikyandhra proponents are behaving like that elder brother in the story and I think, whatever they might have to say, Selfishness is another name for Samaikyandhra.