Raj Thackeray...

Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!! If you are left with any shame and tiny bit of "Marathi madoos" blood..dont ever come out of your hiding. We have heard enough of your crappy nonsensical bull, so I think now you can take a break and may be go for some meditation or rehab center (which I think you really need) and let the real brave "Indians" take charge of nation just the way they remarkably did in controlling the terror attacks and rescuing all those valuable lives in which many were from Maharashtra too. For them they were just Indians or human beings. Get it?

Raj Thackeray, while you are at it, I mean shutting your trap process, do some good to humanity & ask Narendra Modi to shut up too, who thinks offering 1 crore rupees to brave soldiers will wash his sins.

My Mumbai mourns..

yet again, as I write this! All those spots Nariman house, Oberoi's, Taj, VT station, Metro theater and Leopold's cafe where I hung out in college days. All these places and many more and my city bleeds again, screaming for justice and humanity. Mumbaikers are forced given this shock therapy that their lives are under constant menacing terror. The terror strikes are not confined to any one area, it's not just South Mumbai but has gone as far as, far suburbs of Borivali giving sense of depth & breadth of strikes.

I am sick of hearing that spirit of Mumbai will rise again within days. No, it will not! I know that Mumbai is a very lively city but it's not resilient to all that it goes through. We have to stop this farce! People of the city do not have a choice but to get up and gulp this bitter concoction (of dirty politics & religious divide) and get moving. Its not the spirit but the irony.

I was in Mumbai in 1993 and was close to one of the bomb blast locations. We were told to head back home and only after reaching home I realized the magnitude of what I had escaped. Sure, none of my family members were affected. Is that what we have to look for every time? Narrow escapes & safety for your own family and relatives? There were very valuable lives wiped out. What ensued after the blasts were horrific riots and days living in confinement of our home for many days.

And here we are, again! We are not able to recover from one and we are already into another mayhem. Every other year there is something to escape from. Haven't we maxed out with tolerance to get our voices together for peace? We cannot afford these losses anymore, can we?

Is this the event that is going to bring the political divide to unite & fight together as one nation ?

Amidst all the depressing news, Shashi Tharoor speaks bravely to sum up the sentiments of Indians.

Classy...

Inequality will always lead to imbalance

If we look at any kind of national, international or local inequality in distribution of any aspect, it will always lead to imbalance. It sort of relates to the law of nature as well. This imbalance will always lead to disturbance and depending on the magnitude things will fall apart, eventually, if not sooner than later. Be it America claiming its supremacy over the world or Raj Thackarey claiming his ownership over Maharashtra hence Mumbai, racism, suppression of genders, wealth & slavery. The list is long! If there is uneven distribution of resources, wealth or well being, it is bound to collapse the system. This talk by P.Sainath resurfaced again and he is so right about the disparity which is flourishing.

His point of how the generic notion of charity is perceived is remarkable. He says, charity, generally is a thing perceived as a favor towards underprivileged and its not identified something fundamentally wrong in the system which led to this inequality. Till people accept that I am hoarding more than I need, it will never lead to harmony. And unless we share things as a "right" to everyone rather than rich or strong providing it as a favor to less mighty, we can keep fighting!