Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi on Friday said States in India have been created from time to time for “convenience of administration and governance’” but said there is nothing called a “culture of a State”.
Speaking at the Celebration of the Foundation Day of Telangana State at the Raj Bhavan, Mr. Ravi said creation of States have also created political identities such as ‘Tamilians’, ‘Telanganites’, ‘UP-ites’ and so on, and added that “all kinds of fictional identity have been created that has been undoing and undermining the core strength of this country”.
“If this country has survived several thousand years and, for this civilisation to be strong, we have to go back to the core strength of the country…that is cultural continuum. . A State is an administrative entity; it has got a political character; whereas culture is the character of the people/society. Move continuously, you will see the continuum, you won’t see the difference,” he believed.
