Mumbai proudly calls itself the Number One Metropolis of India. It has good reasons to claim so. It has been the centrepoint of Indian businesses and Indian talent pool for decades. The city has drawn the best of India to itself and rewarded them with a brighter life and future, as the opportunities were concentrated there.
The local people were simple living, hard working and focussed. The “New People' worked even harder to make it big in the Biggest City, without the home advantage. Still, some of them triumphed. And as the city grew, it became bigger than 'Maharashtra' itself. This did not go down well with certain locals and then they saw 'newcomers' getting ahead of them. They started to mistake the success of 'Mumbai' as the success of 'Maharashtra'. Ofcourse, to some extent it had to be the case, but beyond that ,it was a just a case of inflated ego and 'exaggerated sense of self worth'.
Mumbai has been on such a pedestal, but sadly it seems that some people, (out of paranoia, insecurity, homophobia), are about to bring it down, from the advantageous position it has been in. As Maharashtra rages against North Indians, people have now started fleeing in hordes. (Maha exodus: 10,000 north Indians flee in fear )
Suddenly, Maharahtra,one of the foremost state in India, is like a mini-Darfur, or those African nations we see regularly on Television...where mobs violate human rights and drive people out of localities. Raj Thackeray is like those African tribal leaders and the likes Robert Mugabe.
How can this be good for anyone?
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the game is on at a lot more places with different rules everywhere;in mumbai, the player has become bigger than the game...thats all.
i agree with you CC
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