As said above in the PART - I of the post, I love Mumbai. But it is not just the fast life that beckons me nor its resistance to turmoils, but its effective blend of cultures.
It is a place where you can find the whole of India. You will get a number of South Indians, Gujaratis, Marwaris, North Indians, bengalis etc etc etc. But to mention they are all Indians. This effective blend of cultures give a unique stimuli to the spirit of the city.
Its narrow, crowded roads, the extensive rail network, overexhausted infratructure, all negative but induce a positive vibe. Despite all this, I love Mumbai.
Again I would like to say,
"Mumbai meri janmbhoomi, Mumbai meri karmbhoomi, Mumbai meri Mrutyubhoomi"
Monday, November 23, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
To Mumbai - My Love PART - I
Mumbai the city of dreams, so it is for many people. Catapulted to international fame, Mumbai hs stayed many problems. Time does not stay there, it just moves fast. Thus it also becomes the city of my dreams.
In this beautiful city, I was born and brought up, having fond memories of my childhood. It took my heart when my parents were transferred to Bangalore, now the Silicon Valley. But now, after 12 long years, I am back to the place I have loved, respected my whole life, as it is till now. Though I am based now in Pune, the city close to my dreams, my heart still dwells in Mumbai.
I am heartened by the spirit that now dwells in Mumbai. Every one saw it and felt it during 26/7 when heavy rains and floods lashed Mumbai. I was saddened during the 7/7 train blasts and 26/11 catastrophe last year. Even now, my blood runs hot when I read about the anniversaries. Even my hands get the adrenaline rush that would propel me to pump bullets into those who ruined the Taj and the Oberoi, killing many people as they willed. I am disheartened when the parties play dirty politics in Mumbai.
Irrespective of these problems that Mumbai faces, Mumbai is still the best city that I could even think of. No other city matches its vigours, its fast life, the ride across the sea link is just so amazing. And now the emergence of the 21 Fahrenheit in Oshiwara. Mumbai is rising, it will go above the rainbows. The skyscrapers that haunt the paush localities, they just daunt the sealines.
Friends, family and others just live by. Acquaintances are just made by. you could never get friendlier people.
Business prospers, though you encounter many difficulties. But these difficulties hone your very skills. It is my work destination, it is my living destination.
In the end, I would want to say this-
" I was born in Mumbai, I will work in Mumbai, and my death will be in Mumbai"
Next in PART - II
In this beautiful city, I was born and brought up, having fond memories of my childhood. It took my heart when my parents were transferred to Bangalore, now the Silicon Valley. But now, after 12 long years, I am back to the place I have loved, respected my whole life, as it is till now. Though I am based now in Pune, the city close to my dreams, my heart still dwells in Mumbai.
I am heartened by the spirit that now dwells in Mumbai. Every one saw it and felt it during 26/7 when heavy rains and floods lashed Mumbai. I was saddened during the 7/7 train blasts and 26/11 catastrophe last year. Even now, my blood runs hot when I read about the anniversaries. Even my hands get the adrenaline rush that would propel me to pump bullets into those who ruined the Taj and the Oberoi, killing many people as they willed. I am disheartened when the parties play dirty politics in Mumbai.
Irrespective of these problems that Mumbai faces, Mumbai is still the best city that I could even think of. No other city matches its vigours, its fast life, the ride across the sea link is just so amazing. And now the emergence of the 21 Fahrenheit in Oshiwara. Mumbai is rising, it will go above the rainbows. The skyscrapers that haunt the paush localities, they just daunt the sealines.
Friends, family and others just live by. Acquaintances are just made by. you could never get friendlier people.
Business prospers, though you encounter many difficulties. But these difficulties hone your very skills. It is my work destination, it is my living destination.
In the end, I would want to say this-
" I was born in Mumbai, I will work in Mumbai, and my death will be in Mumbai"
Next in PART - II
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Are We Really Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai?
Hindi-chini Bhai-Bhai- This phrase was coined during Nehru's regime...But Are We Really as the phrase states? Look at your conscience and ask whether it is really true? I give you a guarantee that it will say NO!!! After all what can you expect from a neighbour who is jealous of your progress and will not allow you to proceed any further...This is the real funda here...Every one acts for themselves....But we are just exactly the opposite...Jai Gandhigiri!!!!
The recent Obama visit to the capital of the Dragons proved it...It is extremely so openly visible that India's foreign policy is being dictated by external powers...India is being held ransom at many points and all the Indian forces are being subdued...(I am not saying military)...Obama appointed China to be the monitor of South Asian policies...Why not India? Is it our petty politics? Is it our constant bickerings with the international fora to solve the Kashmir issue? Why are we so incapable of solving it ourselves? The best solution would be to accept LOC as the international border and have our troops monitor it along with our amicable neighbor Pakistan...Sounds feasible?I guess not. Our external policies with Pakistan is being held ransom by ISI, which might be acting on behalf of China. Nobody can deny Chinese involvement in Pakistan's foreign policies..Pakistan acted strongly when the Uighur Muslims migrated to Pakistan during the civil war, but Pakistan returned them to China.Now these Uighur want to migrate to India..But India is hospitable, allowing them to migrate...Congo for being so humane!!!!We are showing our quality but we are also showing our weakness..India's constant bickering in the international fora about the Kashmir issue indicates that we are weak and cannot take decisions of our own...It is not the international powers but we ourselves should sort it out...But ISI should be stripped of its powers.If not, you can bid this plan a sweet good bye.
Our policies in Asia, for the most of the time, being vetoed by China. Why? A jealous neighbour is ill to afford. China is bent on crippling us.It does not want us to grow. They consider us to be a threat both economically and politically if not militarily. Maybe thats why China doesnt want us to be a part of the UN Security Council.
Arunachal Pradesh is another issue we have with China. It is just doing a pervert act. A flirtatious act to make India look foolish in the eyes of the world. It is only that they regard AP as its own as it is named South Tibet and and their not so normal relations with the Tibetan Buddhists. Some Chinese journals claimed that India has not learnt from the 1962 lesson. True, we lost the war then, but they retreated. their contention: it was our fault that it was war and it were we that halted the trade and economic relations with them...And it is the same now. They do not want AP..they just want to dispose off our threat.. Recently even Google maps showed parts of Ladakh as Chinese territory and AP to be a territory under dispute. This, of course on the Chinese version. this means even the web search giant shows different maps to china and India...The problems that they have with the Dalai Lama are theirs and it is our gentleness that we have accepted the buddhist monk into our culture and country..If Dalai Lama were asked to leave, would the problems be solved?
No..It would not. The world looks to both china and India to take them out of the current recession..If China were to have that credit alone, it would greatly benefit them and China would become another US...The markets are full of Chinese equipments, especially in India, selling their products for less cost than Indian equivalents. To alert our citizens that these products are scrap materials or they are these products which did not sell in their local markets..Why raise their economy when we can maintain ours?
Today, china is encouraging bilateral trade between our countries, in spite of the various disputes..True, both countries would hugely benefit from this trade, but we should sit and talk tough on other issues too...Though our economies need to persist together and industries should spread, China should not be a monopolistic country..Though the effects are not seen much and there has been huge benefits till now, instead of us quarreling over virtual issues, we should try and solve them...But at the same time we need to show them that we are tough by acting toughly on some issues...Most of the times, it is the media that hypes it all and blows things out of their proportion.
So what exactly what we should do? We should amicably explain that AP remains our integral part..We should look more into the development of the North-Eastern states, improve the infrastructure over there..Why should we really neglect those states? We are busy improving the infrastructure...the West has Mumbai, the South Bangalore, The East Kolkata, the North has Delhi, The North West has Jaipur, The South East has Hyderabad and Chennai, The South West has Kochi and Mangalore...But in the North East, there is no city worth mentioning. Why? Are they not parts of our country? Why do we neglect them? Why should we not provide them adequate infrastructure, if not much? why do we give AP its prominence, only when the Dalai Lama visits it?
Secondly, instead of barring the black market trade of chines toys, we should implement a trade tax, a little higher from their Indian counterparts and we should insist on quality..Also, the university exchange of our students to better understand our cultures would be also advantageous.The world is looking at us to take them out...Lets take them out together...Who has told that democracy and communism cant be friends?It is only an agenda that was propagated by the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union...We should create our own lessons and act maturely....We should try and make the Hindi-chini Bhai Bhai phrase come really true....It is not so true now...I am only asking India to be tough from the inside and not let its foreign and external policies be dictated by external powers...We should show the world that we are not so weak as they deem us to be....!!!!Agreed China is sweet-talking us and is jealous of us and our growth....But we should sit at the tables and talk...If they still do not understand, retry!!!!This is the last thing we could do to honour Gandhigiri and say to him who is in the heavens, that we still follow humane measures and are not so weak!!!But we should say to those that hate us,
"Be good to us, we will accept you, Be bad to us, we shall teach you a lesson that you are likely to remember for atleast a century ahead!!!!"
The recent Obama visit to the capital of the Dragons proved it...It is extremely so openly visible that India's foreign policy is being dictated by external powers...India is being held ransom at many points and all the Indian forces are being subdued...(I am not saying military)...Obama appointed China to be the monitor of South Asian policies...Why not India? Is it our petty politics? Is it our constant bickerings with the international fora to solve the Kashmir issue? Why are we so incapable of solving it ourselves? The best solution would be to accept LOC as the international border and have our troops monitor it along with our amicable neighbor Pakistan...Sounds feasible?I guess not. Our external policies with Pakistan is being held ransom by ISI, which might be acting on behalf of China. Nobody can deny Chinese involvement in Pakistan's foreign policies..Pakistan acted strongly when the Uighur Muslims migrated to Pakistan during the civil war, but Pakistan returned them to China.Now these Uighur want to migrate to India..But India is hospitable, allowing them to migrate...Congo for being so humane!!!!We are showing our quality but we are also showing our weakness..India's constant bickering in the international fora about the Kashmir issue indicates that we are weak and cannot take decisions of our own...It is not the international powers but we ourselves should sort it out...But ISI should be stripped of its powers.If not, you can bid this plan a sweet good bye.
Our policies in Asia, for the most of the time, being vetoed by China. Why? A jealous neighbour is ill to afford. China is bent on crippling us.It does not want us to grow. They consider us to be a threat both economically and politically if not militarily. Maybe thats why China doesnt want us to be a part of the UN Security Council.
Arunachal Pradesh is another issue we have with China. It is just doing a pervert act. A flirtatious act to make India look foolish in the eyes of the world. It is only that they regard AP as its own as it is named South Tibet and and their not so normal relations with the Tibetan Buddhists. Some Chinese journals claimed that India has not learnt from the 1962 lesson. True, we lost the war then, but they retreated. their contention: it was our fault that it was war and it were we that halted the trade and economic relations with them...And it is the same now. They do not want AP..they just want to dispose off our threat.. Recently even Google maps showed parts of Ladakh as Chinese territory and AP to be a territory under dispute. This, of course on the Chinese version. this means even the web search giant shows different maps to china and India...The problems that they have with the Dalai Lama are theirs and it is our gentleness that we have accepted the buddhist monk into our culture and country..If Dalai Lama were asked to leave, would the problems be solved?
No..It would not. The world looks to both china and India to take them out of the current recession..If China were to have that credit alone, it would greatly benefit them and China would become another US...The markets are full of Chinese equipments, especially in India, selling their products for less cost than Indian equivalents. To alert our citizens that these products are scrap materials or they are these products which did not sell in their local markets..Why raise their economy when we can maintain ours?
Today, china is encouraging bilateral trade between our countries, in spite of the various disputes..True, both countries would hugely benefit from this trade, but we should sit and talk tough on other issues too...Though our economies need to persist together and industries should spread, China should not be a monopolistic country..Though the effects are not seen much and there has been huge benefits till now, instead of us quarreling over virtual issues, we should try and solve them...But at the same time we need to show them that we are tough by acting toughly on some issues...Most of the times, it is the media that hypes it all and blows things out of their proportion.
So what exactly what we should do? We should amicably explain that AP remains our integral part..We should look more into the development of the North-Eastern states, improve the infrastructure over there..Why should we really neglect those states? We are busy improving the infrastructure...the West has Mumbai, the South Bangalore, The East Kolkata, the North has Delhi, The North West has Jaipur, The South East has Hyderabad and Chennai, The South West has Kochi and Mangalore...But in the North East, there is no city worth mentioning. Why? Are they not parts of our country? Why do we neglect them? Why should we not provide them adequate infrastructure, if not much? why do we give AP its prominence, only when the Dalai Lama visits it?
Secondly, instead of barring the black market trade of chines toys, we should implement a trade tax, a little higher from their Indian counterparts and we should insist on quality..Also, the university exchange of our students to better understand our cultures would be also advantageous.The world is looking at us to take them out...Lets take them out together...Who has told that democracy and communism cant be friends?It is only an agenda that was propagated by the US and the erstwhile Soviet Union...We should create our own lessons and act maturely....We should try and make the Hindi-chini Bhai Bhai phrase come really true....It is not so true now...I am only asking India to be tough from the inside and not let its foreign and external policies be dictated by external powers...We should show the world that we are not so weak as they deem us to be....!!!!Agreed China is sweet-talking us and is jealous of us and our growth....But we should sit at the tables and talk...If they still do not understand, retry!!!!This is the last thing we could do to honour Gandhigiri and say to him who is in the heavens, that we still follow humane measures and are not so weak!!!But we should say to those that hate us,
"Be good to us, we will accept you, Be bad to us, we shall teach you a lesson that you are likely to remember for atleast a century ahead!!!!"
Friday, November 20, 2009
The Great Comedy Show
Indian Politics have surely taken a comic turn...the regional fiasco played by politicians for the votebanks is indeed a matter of concern and a hot fav topic for the comedians on many reality shows.
A matter of concern for the central state which boasts of having the national commercial capital as its state capital. The Manhattan of India, it is so called by the bureaucrats and the businessmen. Its image has been bought upwards, pulling it into international fame over a few decades of the past. It is a place where whole of India has been segregated. Migration has always taken place and it will take place in the future, for many hold it as a city of dreams. For so it is now called Mumbai.
But its fame has caught some bad looks, in hindi it is told "nazar lag gayi". The young outfit is desperate in preventing the immigrants landing up on the jobs here. The young outfit is trying to coax businesses, government organisations into reserving jobs for the locals. No doubt they have a right but it is unfair in this globalised competitive environment to be localized, just at the whims of a party that just got recognized by the Election Commission. Not only that, they think that they are the supreme holders of the law, their actions spoke in the Assembly. whatever the invocations (made by the opposition party leader, it is accused not sure), the Assembly is no place for a wrestling match. The Constitution has provided certain rights and lawmakers and law followers need to follow and respect them, not break them. True that the local language must be learnt and spoken, but consider the fact that these immigrants are poor, will they concentrate on landing up a job for themselves so they bring about their family upbringing or will they learn the new language, especially if they are slow to grasp. The young outfit that I am mentioning is the result of a division between the old and the cubs of the old. Instead of focussing on issues that are just so virtual, I suggest they focus on the real issues. when the farmers are committing suicide in the belts of Vidarbha, where is this young aggressive outfit?
The next issue is that of the accusation of a sportsperson in the field of politics. Sure he entered into the pitch briefly, but he is entitled to his opinion. Not only is he a national and international icon, he is a citizen of India entitled to his fundamental right. The only thing he said was that he was from the central state and he is also an Indian. He also mentioned Mumbai is for all. What mistake did he do that the old tiger should accuse him of being termed as fallen down in the eyes of those who live here.I dont think so. Nothing but votebank politics...Recently, this old outfit has lost its foothold, the new leader termed soft. With the old tiger rising up again, his mind has surely started working against his enemy. The Congress has used the young outfit to stall the old very effectively. Both of these warring factions have failed to realise that they are just the pawns of the ruling alliance. I have lost respect for both the outfits, the younger for their actions and the older for its counter actions. The older outfit should have been more sensible.
Looking at the votebank now, rural areas do not tend to vote these parties. The election results are the witness. Only certain elements from the urban and semi-urban areas have elected these parties. Actually, it is a part of some of us citizens who are responsible for voting these outfits. These outfits should stop playing virtual politics and concentrate on real issues.
Lastly, I would want to say that, this blog is not intentionally meant for hurting these outfits, Though I agree partially with these issues, they should stop blowing out of proportion. This is a democracy. And they should respect the democratic space. And this disclaimer was necessary, since in India, we have failed to understand the value of democracy. We should call ourselves a multi party socialist country. And also a religious one. Due to these votebank politics and petty issues, I can say that India has failed, by virtue of its integrity. Petty politics have consumed us.Sad to say again, even though it is said India Shining, I may say it is India Is Failing(actually in the political front, which may also have an impact on our economy.)
A matter of concern for the central state which boasts of having the national commercial capital as its state capital. The Manhattan of India, it is so called by the bureaucrats and the businessmen. Its image has been bought upwards, pulling it into international fame over a few decades of the past. It is a place where whole of India has been segregated. Migration has always taken place and it will take place in the future, for many hold it as a city of dreams. For so it is now called Mumbai.
But its fame has caught some bad looks, in hindi it is told "nazar lag gayi". The young outfit is desperate in preventing the immigrants landing up on the jobs here. The young outfit is trying to coax businesses, government organisations into reserving jobs for the locals. No doubt they have a right but it is unfair in this globalised competitive environment to be localized, just at the whims of a party that just got recognized by the Election Commission. Not only that, they think that they are the supreme holders of the law, their actions spoke in the Assembly. whatever the invocations (made by the opposition party leader, it is accused not sure), the Assembly is no place for a wrestling match. The Constitution has provided certain rights and lawmakers and law followers need to follow and respect them, not break them. True that the local language must be learnt and spoken, but consider the fact that these immigrants are poor, will they concentrate on landing up a job for themselves so they bring about their family upbringing or will they learn the new language, especially if they are slow to grasp. The young outfit that I am mentioning is the result of a division between the old and the cubs of the old. Instead of focussing on issues that are just so virtual, I suggest they focus on the real issues. when the farmers are committing suicide in the belts of Vidarbha, where is this young aggressive outfit?
The next issue is that of the accusation of a sportsperson in the field of politics. Sure he entered into the pitch briefly, but he is entitled to his opinion. Not only is he a national and international icon, he is a citizen of India entitled to his fundamental right. The only thing he said was that he was from the central state and he is also an Indian. He also mentioned Mumbai is for all. What mistake did he do that the old tiger should accuse him of being termed as fallen down in the eyes of those who live here.I dont think so. Nothing but votebank politics...Recently, this old outfit has lost its foothold, the new leader termed soft. With the old tiger rising up again, his mind has surely started working against his enemy. The Congress has used the young outfit to stall the old very effectively. Both of these warring factions have failed to realise that they are just the pawns of the ruling alliance. I have lost respect for both the outfits, the younger for their actions and the older for its counter actions. The older outfit should have been more sensible.
Looking at the votebank now, rural areas do not tend to vote these parties. The election results are the witness. Only certain elements from the urban and semi-urban areas have elected these parties. Actually, it is a part of some of us citizens who are responsible for voting these outfits. These outfits should stop playing virtual politics and concentrate on real issues.
Lastly, I would want to say that, this blog is not intentionally meant for hurting these outfits, Though I agree partially with these issues, they should stop blowing out of proportion. This is a democracy. And they should respect the democratic space. And this disclaimer was necessary, since in India, we have failed to understand the value of democracy. We should call ourselves a multi party socialist country. And also a religious one. Due to these votebank politics and petty issues, I can say that India has failed, by virtue of its integrity. Petty politics have consumed us.Sad to say again, even though it is said India Shining, I may say it is India Is Failing(actually in the political front, which may also have an impact on our economy.)
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