Vaibhav’s Blog

In India ‘State’ means a federated state which is a territorial and constitutional body which is part of the larger union which is a sovereign state or country or nation. The Constitution of India has defined the power sharing between states and the Union.

Before formation of Union of India, Indian subcontinent was being ruled by several ethnic groups over centuries. During British rule, India was either under direct British rule or was under Princely state allied to Britain. British had divided India in certain Provinces like Central, Bombay and Calcutta for simplifying the administration. These boundaries were not reflecting cultural and ethnic diversity in subcontinent. Post independence, when State reorganization was necessity, these were created based on linguistic criteria.
That’s how today’s modern states were formed. This grouping of states and thereby people of same language or culture was created on ideology that people of same culture will mix together as one identity and they share similar aspirations and beliefs.

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It’s a typical Johar movie, a love story, a dramatic adventurous mission of “Meeting the President of the United States of America” to tell him THE MESSAGE, and to add mirch-masala, instances to glorify the “Rizwan Khan” a.k.a. SRK himself, blah blah blah. Nothing surprising, nothing different.

Point here is not to discuss the film, which some people may like, some may not. But I want to centralize this topic around certain message given in the film.

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