Kiran K Karthikeyan [22/01/10 01:15 +0530]:
I read this article[1] by silklister Salil Tripathi a few days back, and today I was told that unless I register with the local Karayogam, I can't get my marriage registered. Karayogam is the name of local chapters of the Nair Service Society. I made an attempt (feeble in
One thing he missed is a tendency to gerrymander new states on caste and language lines, so telengana shuts out the chowdarys / rajus etc powerful coastal andhra feudal castes, the old andhra pradesh shut out tamils / tamil nadu shut out telugus, jharkhand was a mostly tribal area with a tribal first CM etc. All this is out to do is to create more regional parties, more madhu kodas, karunanidhis etc, with no power base beyond their own state, and absolute in their control / powers they arrogate to themselves within their own state.
