The politics of reviving Khalistan movement; Preferred being called as Tamil Friend in The Gray Man; Punjabi Singer representing Punjabi <-> Jatt at Coachella from Punjab; Communists in 60s longing to paint India Red, restricted to Kerala, West Bengal; Kota type academic belt of North India; Jhoome Re Pathaan; Bengali literature please; Hindi Bollywood or South Indian (Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam Film Industry) -> What’s the commonality between all? Ans: A collection of different fruits in a Basket competing for regions, & sometimes
trying to take that fight Global, which is then becoming more idiosyncratic aka Regionalism at War; rather, forming coalition under common minimum agenda (a myth); wherein different fruits have different properties as well, viz. high/low pH value; high/low sugar content; alkaline/acidic/neutral.Now,
those fruits who were able to/can manage, understand & represent every fruit
(including those in the Basket above), forge(d) Nationalism
via Nationalistic Federalism; against which
today, the regional oppositions are uniting to claim their share at Centre.
Further,
now, fruits amongst who’re representing Nationalism via Nationalistic
Federalism who furthermore were able to / can understand and manage Evolutionary
Traits of different Baskets beyond borders and could / trying to further work
towards the progress of all; forge(d) Globalism (not to be
mistaken with Modern Globalism).
Thus,
this equation Globalism > Nationalism > Regionalism can be
justified. But, Globalism, which may be beneficial for the World in general, might
eventually become detrimental for Regionalism or Nationalism; as some
part of the latter would always remain out of sync.
Now,
when collective Regionalism form assemblage as united opposition as
a coalition, then that’s Gratuitous. Why? Because
regionalism maybe good for a region as that’s its priority to serve first, and
can’t become national or global; and viewing World from the lenses of
regionalism, won’t resolve even a single national or global issue. There would
always be a war amongst regionalism, as we’ve seen in the above few examples,
for representation within or beyond borders. Further, assemblage merely on the
foundation of the terms alike: Unity, or, United We Must Stand, or, Standing
Against Hate, won’t define or upgrade such assemblage, as regionalism
in itself technically annuls the definitions of the above tag
lines that’s being used for coalition. And there’s no such concept of ‘common’
minimum agenda under coalition of united multi-party regionalism, as
commonality is merely restricted to regional shares as desired which only leads
to the ideas of separatism in the end, metaphorically or otherwise!
© Pranav Chaturvedi 2023