Hyderabad Blues - Tg Article In Wall Street Journal

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[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Is Telangana a good idea? Since last week, when the Indian government greenlit the formation of the country's 29th state, the question has roiled Andhra Pradesh, the megastate from which Telangana will be carved out pending parliamentary approval. As statehood activists celebrate, protestors from the rest of Andhra Pradesh have taken to the streets to vent their outrage.[/font][/size][/indent]
[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000]At first glance the case for Telangana appears straightforward. Andhra Pradesh is one of India's largest states, with a mostly Telugu-speaking population of 74 million and an area the size of Colorado. From this Telangana will hive off 35 million people, and 10 of 23 districts.[/color][/font][/size][/indent]








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[color=#333333]K. Chandrasekhar Rao, left, reacts to the approval of Telangana as a new state.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size]
[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]India's experience suggests that smaller states—more culturally cohesive and easier to administer—tend to prosper. The most recent examples include the Hindi belt states of Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand, which have grown relatively fast since their birth in 2000. To this argument Telangana activists add claims of government neglect, plus a supposed sense of separateness fostered by history.[/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]

[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]Take a closer look, however, and the logic of Telangana begins to falter. For starters, the timing of New Delhi's decision appears driven by politics rather than principle. Polls show the ruling Congress Party struggling in Andhra Pradesh, which accounts for 33 of its 206 seats in Parliament—more than any other state. With national elections less than a year away, the Telangana announcement seems like an attempt to salvage a chunk of seats (Telangana will account for 17 of Andhra Pradesh's current 42 parliamentary seats) even if it means writing off the rest of the state.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]

[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]As for historical neglect, while it's true that many of Telangana's 10 proposed districts are poor, on many indices of income and development the region ranks above Rayalseema, another part of Andhra Pradesh. Nor have voters shown particular sympathy for Mr. Rao's demands. In the last elections, in 2009, his single-issue party lost three of its five seats in Parliament, and 16 of 26 seats in the state assembly. Indeed, Telangana voters have usually backed the same politicians as the rest of the state.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]

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[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]Then there's the economy. Andhra Pradesh ranks as India's second-largest state by economic output—$111 billion at current exchange rates. With 7.7 million people, its capital, Hyderabad, is the country's fourth-largest city by population. New Delhi wants Telangana to assume full control of Hyderabad within 10 years. From an economic perspective, this is daft.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]
[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]Over the past 15 years, thanks in part to the efforts of the reformist former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Hyderabad has evolved from a sleepy backwater to one of India's most important business hubs. Foreign investors include IBM,[url="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=IBM?mod=inlineTicker"]IBM -1.38%[/url] Dell, Oracle and Microsoft. For many Indians, the suburb of Cyberabad is synonymous with technology. The city also hosts the Indian School of Business, founded in partnership with Wharton and Kellogg.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]
[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]Hyderabad has prospered because entrepreneurs from the rest of Andhra Pradesh plow wealth from agricultural surpluses into business, and because a well-educated global Telugu diaspora that sees the city as home. Dr. Reddy's Laboratories helped put India's pharmaceuticals industry on the world map. The Nagarjuna Group spans fertilizers, chemicals and power. The GVK Group has built airports in Mumbai and Bangalore and plans to expand into Indonesia. All were founded by people that Telangana partisans would consider "outsiders."[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]
[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]While the largest firms will likely find a way to stay put, the last thing investors need is uncertainty about Hyderabad's future. The prospect of surrendering the city to a petty chauvinistic party with no record of governance does not inspire confidence in either business or the diaspora. It's hard to imagine a landlocked city divorced from the entrepreneurial energy of coastal Andhra doing nearly as well.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]

[indent=1][size=5][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000][color=#000000]This is not to suggest that India's internal borders are sacrosanct. Indeed, on administrative grounds alone the country's 1.2 billion people should be split among 50 or 60 states. But in order to work, these divisions must be seen to be above petty electoral calculations, enjoy the broad consent of the entire state in question, and be dictated by economic logic, not parochial passions. Unfortunately for India, Telangana fails on all three counts.[/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/color][/font][/size][/indent]
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[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]How could WSJ allow such a partisan article to be published? This is a wholly one-sided, blinkered opinion on Telangana Statehood. The author completely ignores the 60-year background to the issue. Let it be known to the world that the 'United Sate' was born out of a wedlock of two separate states that existed prior to 1956. The wedlock was based on certain agreements. Such affirmative agreements, in favour of backward Telangana, were brazenly violated by the 'advantaged' sections from coastal Andhra.

The author says "violent partisants were college students promised jobs that might otherwise go to better candidates from elsewhere in Andhra". I am shocked! "Better" candidates or 'better connected' candidates'?

"Hyderabad has evolved from a sleepy backwater to one of India's most important business hubs" Did you know that Hyderabad was on the cover of Time magazine in 1937? It was the 5th largest city in Indian in 1956 and it is so now. So to label the 5th largest city in India as a 'sleepy backwater' is an attempt to mislead the reader.

"entrepreneurial energy of coastal Andhra" was mostly about crony capitalism of the ruling class. Of course, there are exceptions but there are really very few businessmen, who prospered by not doing "business" with the state. The article is utterly partisan in that all the important facts about the 'merger of 1956', which could have given perspective to the reader, have been ignored.[/font][/size][/size][size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][url=""]Recommend[/url][/font][/size][/size][/size][size=1]
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[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Sir,
I'm to say that you made some biased and false comments.
Let me clarify,

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Let it be known to the world that the 'United Sate' was born out of a wedlock of two separate states that existed prior to 1956.
1. First of all there was no state called Telangana in the history so far. Please correct your statement.
2. Telangana and Andhra regions were separated in the year 1800(Rayalaseema got separated as Ceded area) and 1820(Coastal AP got separated as Circar area) from the Nizam territory. The Nizam state first merged in to Independent India in 1948 from British India. They got merged back again after a separation of 150 years in 1956. From your comment can I say that Telangana was another country prior to 1947?
Answer to False Statement-2

Absolutely right statement made by the author. The people of the region got interested in the agitation only due to the false promises like more jobs, our vacancies- our jobs, our land – our water, our assets – our resources, free power to farmers, 12 % reservations to muslims, SC to be made as a CM, increments in jobs, more promotions, water to fields, our history is separate, we were another nation etc.

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[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Dear Bhuvan,

You are going too far back. You should be talking about the AGREEMENTS that have been violated, period. That is the genesis of the present demand.

Secondly, do not forget theSRC, which recommended Hyderabad state(excluding the 5 districts merged with Maharastra & Karnataka) to continue for some real, solid reasons.(all the fears expressed therein about Andhra 'imperialism' -Nehru said so - turned out to be true).[/font][/size][/size][size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][url=""]Recommend[/font][/size][/size][/size][size=1]
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Answer to False Statement-3
"Hyderabad has evolved from a sleepy backwater to one of India's most important business hubs" Did you know that Hyderabad was on the cover of Time magazine in 1937? It was the 5th largest city in Indian in 1956 and it is so now. So to label the 5th largest city in India as a 'sleepy backwater' is an attempt to mislead the reader.

Prior to 1948 Hyderabad was ruled by aristocrat Nizam under the suzerainty of British. He has lot of wealth by renting/leasing it out/ selling his regions to French and British. And also he was known for collecting huge taxes. Only Hyderabad, since it was his capital and his living place got the development while the rest of the state was in dark and was more backward with no amenities, commutation, communication, transport, electricity, water, farming techniques, schools, colleges, local language teachers, bridges and what else...
Nizam appeared in Time magazine as the richest person heading the suzerain state called Hyderabad. Not Hyderabad as most developed city in the world. Please correct. And more over the wealth of Nizam is today with Govt of India, Pakistan, British, his successors, some strangers who looted, hidden at the time of Operation Polo. What the state of AP got is the assets of buildings and few factories under his control. They dont make Hyderabad rich. Today Hyderabad is rich due to IT revolution, Pharma Industries, Rich and corporate Hospitals, Corporate Hotels, Electronic Industries, Biotech Industries, Real Estate, Manufacturing Industries, Machines and Tools Industries, Electrical Industries, Fruits, vegetables and commercial Markets etc.

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"entrepreneurial energy of coastal Andhra" was mostly about crony capitalism of the ruling class. Of course, there are exceptions but there are really very few businessmen, who prospered by not doing "business" with the state.

Well if there are no capitalists in democracy, then there are no inventions and growth. Today USA, Germany, France, Japan, U.K, and even Korea, and including China are growing due to a shift in their approach towards capitalism. Capitalism with in democracy is needed and so does communism in democracy, and so does a bit of aristocracy to take some tough decisions for the benefit of the nation. We need a balance of all these. Not every time one method is right. It depends on the ongoing state. And that is why Andhra Pradesh as a state grew and is challenging other prime states such a Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Punjab.
Can I say Gujaratis, Sindhis, Parsis and Punjabis are part of crony capitalism and they have the control over the major businesses in India? It is all how you see. Hope you take positive out of the hapenings and try to convert the negatives in to positives with all round effort from every class. And i'm surprised to know how Telangana state formation is an answer to this problem if it so?
Do you know what the Industrialists such as G Vivek, Nama, Janardhan Reddy, Suresh Reddy, KK, Komatreddy, Bharat Reddy etc are of? You are dividing the state and making the same politicians as politicians but not the people who sacrificed their lives and the people who from Osmania. All your fight will only result in the benefit to the politicians and none else. May be Industrialists. And you need to know wicked Industrialists round the country including coastal AP will still have their foot even after separation. Because politics is always politics. Take my word. Thank you.[/font][/size][/size][size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][url=""]1 Recommendation[/url][/font][/size][/size][/size][size=1]
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[size=4][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Dear Bhuvan,

Do not tell me that Bangalore,which was a sleepy, pensioner's town, became the Silicon Valley today because of somebody's benediction. Hyderabad had everything going for becoming a great city. Here are the excerpts from the Time story:

“India has no native state so rich, potent and extensive as Hyderabad ……
In Hyderabad the native government is real, it is earnest, and the life of His Exalted Highness is much involved with projects of irrigation, soil conservation, the anxieties of how much in the way cotton piece goods is imported from Japan rather than England, modernization of the Hyderabad State Railways and the still somewhat novel issues raised by electricity…..

The words on a modernistic building of which Hyderabad is proud are not in native characters but read "POWER STATION" and the Nizam has promised communal radio sets to every town and village.”

Get it. It had everything going for it. Read the benevolence of Nizam, it was not just about his opulence! So do not tell me Andhra's (shall we say CB Naidu here) invented Internet![/font][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size][/size]
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60years background aa bonga... 1973 lo evadidi nakaru??? ysr poina tarwata vachindi ee sodi anta