Feb 2008
Just like most other crimes, murder, rape, thuggery and violence, the actions seen in Mumbai are deplorable. Nobody can HOPE to justify a handful of delinquents running around burning buses and taxis, imposing complete anarchy on a city that really just wants to get to work and fight normal life that is tough enough without these vandals going around doing all that we saw.
Nobody in their right senses can EVER, with a straight face, say that murder, violence or public damage is justified.Not even Mr. Raj T.
It really is a problem of myopia.Some communities have it worse than others.
These guys, people in power, REALLY have the opportunity to do SO much good, its not funny.The upliftment of the Marathi Manoos isn’t a bad, strange, or wrong agenda - quite the contrary.But if he REALLY wanted to do something about, he’d have bothered to study the problem in depth and come up with a slightly more constructive way of handling this.
The Marathi Manoos isnt represented in the railway board exams, he says.The answer is really not running around like delinquent 5 yr olds breaking, burning, demolishing tax-payer owned properties to protest. It really is in understanding WHY these guys aren't there in the first place? Is it a problem of basic lethargy? Is it an educational problem? Were they not informed about the tests? are they all busy erecting multi-million rupee statues?
In a country like ours, there are no simplistic answers, and an over-simplification of core issues is purely used to address mind-numbed political rallies, not as national-level solutions.You cant fool us buddy.
We’re on to you.
If he wants them to eat, he can do two things, one is snatch a meal from somebody’s mouth, or spend some time and TEACH them to cook.The second option is tougher, needs more time than a 15 minute incendiary speech, but is SUSTAINABLE. Let everyone compete in a free market, and prove their mettle. Survival of the fittest. And who can know this better than us Mumbai-ites?
It may mainly be a problem of an attention hungry young politician trying to do some good for the state. He’s probably TRYING to do it too. But he’s heavily blinkered. Maybe ego,maybe just Myopia.And mis-fired rockets don’t do any good, they just result in huge losses.
Surprisingly, there ARE answers.
Buddy, if you have an issue with the lack of Marathi signage at the International Airport, you may realise that the “5-year-old” mindset is to go blacken it with paint.What have you achieved? A label as a vandal, you haven’t increased the Marathi signage, and the general disrespect of most intelligent sane people. You have drive and the power to REALLY do something. What an intelligent, forward thinking politician ( in the best interests of everyone) would do is commission a design outfit to design a multi-lingual signage system, well worked out, well designed, an INTERNATIONAL pride. Rather than international shame.
Spare a thought for the Parsi’s. Look at their positions.They constiture 0.006% of the Indian population.Think they’re not represented? Politically? No leaders, no guiding lights, no strength to burn buses? Buddy, they’ve got themselves sorted out.They’re regularly setting up Hospitals, schools, public gardens, housing for their community, educational scholarships, freeships, low interest loans and a MULITITUDE of other Parsi-Manoos development schemes.They’ve got their head on their shoulders. Learn Buddy, learn. Its not happening in another country. Look around you.
Would urge everyone here to just think about things.
We’ve put these guys where they are.Not in places of power, but in places of esteem.Thats the true problem.See for yourselves, that they CAN do good things, they are CHOOSING not to.
This is not really a question of identity, language, colour, caste, Bombay’s really above it all.We’re the best.We love our city.Please DO NOT mess with us.
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