Breaking apart.

Are we all breaking apart? Into little bits and pieces.

That's what it looks like. Most recently Andhra Pradesh broke into another piece, Telengana. Up in the north-east there has been an ongoing cry for a separate state for the Bodo tribe. The huge state of Uttar Pradesh has already had to break into another state of Uttarakhand. Bihar has had to break into the little piece for the Santhal tribes and a new state, Jharkhand has come into existence.

Now closer to home, in West Bengal, the Nepalis, or Gorkhas, as they'd like themselves to be known as, are demanding a break-away and create their own state of Gorkhaland.

When and where will all this end? And more importantly why is this happening?

Is it because this sub-continent has so many languages, so many cultures, so many different types of food, all linked to different ethinicities? Is this the cause of all the strain that India as a whole is feeling? These pulls and tugs are actually fragmenting the country's oneness.

Unless there is a strong government at the Centre, a government which can truly govern and address all these petty squabbling going on all around, the future looks very uncertain. It may be possible for the unthinkable to happen, that one day India will really break apart.