Monday, February 1, 2010

What is this Marathi thing in Mumbai And I am being really boring

I have been there. For a weekend. My cousin who is a reporter for a TV channel, has got the Cab, Driver. So part work and a lot of fun. First day we had our very awesome lunch @ BCCI office canteen. Its MCC on Marine Drive. In the evening, it was cool air blowing from the sea and i said we get a beer. Cousin said not anywhere around. I stopped a taxi and asked. It was near. We got and had real fun till midnight. Mumbai is sometimes so cool that at 12 it was just like 10 of Delhi. Maybe Early.
It started next day. He showed me all sites related to 26/11 and took me to Irani cafe where they used to have tea while covering 26/11. we were going around Mumbai and I saw a strange thing. Every shop has its name in Marathi also. Along with English. It was different and I believed it should have be like that. In Hindi belt, people have inferiority complex for Hindi. You go to Punjab, they respect Punjabi and Kannadiga proud Kannadda. Yeah, at least they are not ashamed. So, it was good. Cousin told that it was done due to Raj Thakare, who threatened all showroom owners to change billboards and signboard to include Marathi also. Ahh it temporary relief.
While my cousin, is a bit(understatement) aggrasive, he said it was right. But in opinion, though it gave a good feeling but the way it was done, was not correct.

It may seem banal. I accept. But often we people dont think enough about it. What Thakareys are doing, gets a lot of support in Mumbai. Make no mistake, a lot of people support them. Except Hindi media or English Media that despises them. Ahh.. Maybe this is one of the ways to make things work in the country. The thing basically they are saying is not wrong. I take their point. Mumbai is a lot different that Delhi. There is fight for everything. If you think Delhi is over crowded, visit Mumbai. So basically they are saying that outsiders should not be allowed, anymore. Persians, Gujrati communities have always been the most prosperous communities their alongwith ubiquitious Pujabis also.
What these people are targeting is the Local Maratha Man who, has never been rich and hence never called the shots for anything in the city, despite being the majority there. So, the card they are playing is based on basically the inferiority complex of the local population. I am stretching it too much and getting away from point.

Its banal, its trite. but its correct. The way these so-called greats have taken basically shuts down the door for the debate. Doubt is a better choice than false sincerity for the democracy. its becoming mob-o-cracy. Agree or we'll beat you. Its just like Taliban without Kalashnikovs. Our country is seriously low on social IQ. I find these people and the people who are following them stupid. Maybe they are not really stupid. Actually its India and maybe I do not understand how to survive in the country. Our democracy is just 60 years old and maybe after 50 years, we can expect some sort of sincerity from the 'awaam'.
The problem with Congress has always being laid back. Or maybe British Inheritence of Divide and Rule. For that, they keep ignoring this very hazardous campaign. It pisses me off.
This way, our country can not go on. People have this strange belief that maybe things will work out. I am telling you that maybe this

IT HAS BECOME VERY BORING. LOL. So cut it.

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