Sunday 6 December 2009

Telengana landscape is full of beautiful rock formations.
My sister-in-law used to drive miles around and sketch these rocks.... my son had done a stint photgraphing these rocks for a "rock census".
They are truly wonderful...old, and eroded to amazing shapes.
There are the lakes...they surprise you...as you drive, in the most unexpected place suddenly...A lake!!
Then there are dolmens. A huge ring of dolmens buried with the ASI excavating just one of them.... no money to excavate the others. The city garbage is dumped all around these dolmens...that was 10 years ago...maybe now the real estate people have dug the dolmens and made a block of flats.....I wouldn't be surprised at all. Development you see !!!

They may get a separate Telengana state. The Congress is in fix. KCR is in a fix. ...he started a fast, but didnt have any idea how to get out of it....thought he had got out of it by drinking orange juice ceremoniously and was villified by the students he had managed to rouse. He was forced to resume it. Still has not managed to wriggle out of it. Must be getting desperate.
Another problem for him is the student body he has aroused.
The strength of students is really awesome. They can be roused easily, but cannot be controlled. Student violence takes on a momentum of its own. It is easily started, but cannot be stopped.
In the years 1971-74, Bangalore university had a student strike every September. ..for no particular reason.. we, the students usually did not even know why we were striking.
The Delhi University had major disruptions in the seventies thanks to people like Arun Jaitley.
Osmania University was another...the murder of George Reddy in the seventies....student politics is really awful.
In the small town I went to school in, we had ONE college and it had college union elections, and in those stupid elections, one of the candidates was murdered and thrown into the lake.
Now again KCR has used the students to further his political ambitions.
Meanwhile, there are students who need to pass out and start earning their livelihood. There are those who aspire to get admission into PG courses and may not be able to.
Politicians are good at making others sacrifice for what they want.

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