Monday, September 08, 2008

Mumbai Tumhara Sahar ?

Let the Hindi film & television industry shift away from Mumbai. Ditto with the Stock Exchange. Same with the BCCI. The Marathi upper middle class Thuk Re manoos will lose his parasitic sting for ever.

What have these bandits, who speak for Marathi asmita, done about farmer suicides in Vidharva and Marathwada ? What irony that these Jaichands have been born to a historically progressive state like Maharashtra !

And I am not only speaking of the Thuk Re clan. All those Marathi men & women in the public eye, rich & famous because of the cosmopolitan, industrious, audacious and bhel Hindi character of Bombay, and who choose to keep silent while Hindi and its adherents are bashed about, are equally culpable.

2 comments:

Mandakini said...

"What have these bandits, who speak for Marathi asmita, done about farmer suicides in Vidharva and Marathwada"

Spot on.

A spokesperson for the MNS justified it thus " in Rome you must do as the romans do - therefore in Maharashtra you must behave like maharashtrians - or else go back." I have never heard anything more absurd and illogical in my life.

Parochialism in politics is not new but this just takes the cake.

Siddhartha Joshi said...

Yes its strange that we hardly hear anyone (except, perhaps, policians from Bihar) who are coming out to strongly criticize whats happening. Maybe it shows something...either people are afraid or giving their implicit approval for these acts. Both of these are dangerous...