Do you see any direction in how regionalism is being handled?

I don't. So I am worried.
I know many will like to brush off saying at the end everything will be alright, everything will be fine...dont worry, people will forget. But being a thoughtful person, I just can’t help feeling anxious at the lack of direction in how situation is handled by government establishment and political leadership.

Recently I read a news article on Times of India's website that Marathies in Bihar and Jharkhand are leading a normal life despite incidents in Mumbai. Similarly one news channel showed interview of few marathies in Lucknow and how they were against what was happening in Mumbai.
It somehow came across as a subtle threat that there are marathi people in North too. What was not clear though was who these threats were addressed to? Such "posturing" does not work even in family conflicts, leave alone having any possibility of resolving the problems of complex multi cultural nation that India is.

Bewilderment of political leadership is astonishing. They just don’t seem to be able to figure out how to take nation past this regionalism. Some will argue and count the leaders who are happy consolidating their regional base by adding fuel to fire. But even those with national perspective seem to be in complete bewilderment on how to reproach this factionalism.

This lack of direction is astonishing particularly because it was right here, in this county, where Gandhi showed how to rally people from different backgrounds in terms of culture, language, social and economic status for a common cause. He invented what is referred to as “politics of aggressive moralism” and used it so successfully not only to drive India’s Independence movement but was later emulated by Civil Rights activists in USA and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. His politics was basically to appeal to and provoke people’s Goodness.
We as a nation have not lost a common cause. Ask a citizen from any part of India and he will tell you that we are better off as one nation. He just needs an inspiring leadership to help him look beyond bewildering cultural and linguistic differences that we have. And that is where our current political leadership has left a gaping hole.