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Monday, November 24, 2008

Life in a land of aversion

Mumbai - a city never sleeps, Mumbai - a city of dream, Mumbai - a city of glam & money. We are supposed to think about Mumbai like these a way back. But now Mumbai has become a city of violence & paramountcy of The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena of Raj Thakre. His strategy to steal the Maharashtrian vote bank end up spreading out anti socialism in the city. The man has been arrested after a migrant laborer from Uttar Prades killed by his sena, thereafter as a result another migrant boy Rahul Raj took up the gun in protest & shot dead by police. But there was no stop for Raj Thakre in spite of behind the bars. His Sena continuing the series of hatred & antipathy...& has made the city of dream a furnace of politics. Still in the city, migrants are not safe, they are still fighting with the nava nirman sena on their rights on Mumbai. But why do they have to prove anything? It was said that India is a land of 'unity in diversity'...we don’t have our leaders of such idealism & principles these days,I agree...but these types of anti national politics is not acceptable. Even in West Bengal we have seen the leaders’ takes advantage of situation to secure their vote bank (take Singur or Lalgar issue as example) but they don’t try to rouse such demolishing politics among people. Being a kolkatan I can say that approximately over 45% of the people live here whose mother tongue isn’t Bengali...but we have never shown any antipathy to them. Is it a mandatory condition for any body to live in Mumbai that he/she has to speak in Marathi? If situation goes like this who will take up the security of migrants in Mumbai? We need answer...

1 comment:

Subhadeep Bhattacharjee said...

Well having been to Maharashtra in the last weekend I can say Marathis are very simple and helpful people.....MNS has just hijacked an issue in which Marathis hardly have a role to play........they are looking down on themselves and thats the main issue....As far as Bengal is concerned we Bongs are so proud of out culture and past that we feel we are shielded from any cultural intrusion......the problem is more cultural than economic in Maharashtra