India's Southern States Up The Ante !
BY R.K. MISRA Vanity is the quicksand of reason .It sucks into the muck. Many a glory seeking political gamble began with fanning dormant ambers only to find the fiery red of the flames descend on their dreams like the blackening haze of falling ashes. What began as a face-off between the Centre and Tamil Nadu over the non-implementation of the 3- language formula as part of the National Education Policy (NEP) has now engulfed many more issues critical to the Southern states. Barring Chandrababu Naidu’s, Andhra Pradesh, all the others-Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana and Tamil Nadu have come together on a common platform. That the mounting disquiet amongst the Southern states of the country is crossing the bounds to engulf leaders of other opposition states as well as political entities should be cause for concern for the BJP- ruled Centre which is hobbling on the crutches of Naidu and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Both have been put on notice for their sil...