Indeed a problem -
The Lion has a very peculiar trait : male lion kills his female’s cubs which do not belong to him so that he does not end up wasting time and energy on protecting those cubs.
Poor cops, they kill down a man with a gun in his hand to protect a large number of people out there, as it stands now, the encounter is set to through ministerial investigation. Instead of giving then a pat on their back, Politicians are venting out their ‘regional’ anger on Mumbai Police and
That brings me to the point of the young Thackeray : the guy has caused some turbulence in
All need to be informed about
1. Literacy rate in
Literacy rate in Hindi-speaking population is much lower, 55% in UP and 47% in
2. Maharashtra is best in
3. Most number of Internet users, highest percentage of post-graduates and doctorates in the total population, biggest emigration ratio for specialized services abroad.
4. The single most ‘Cosmo’ state; it’s very easy for any person speaking any language following any culture or with any faith to relocate to
5. The Maharashtrian population is considered to be the most liberal society with best female security and best woman empowerment practices.
Now, The problems (with descending order of severity) for
1. Infrastructure woes; unprecedented shortage of power and water alongwith with dilapidated urban structures all over the state
2. Increased crime rate; most of people currently being prosecuted for spreading / causing terror belong to Hindi speaking regions
3. Loss of jobs for un-skilled / less-skilled locals; let’s say if a Maharashtrian labor demands Rs 300 wage per day for a certain work, a outside labor does the same work for Rs 150 only. (the outsiders generally do not bring their families along and hence the average number of dependants is much less, to add to that, they can stay ‘anywhere’ and ‘in any condition’) {now, this is priority no. 1 for Raj}
4. Demographic imbalance / skewed sex ratio; the unskilled migration is heavily constituted by males (more than 90%).
5. Locals agitation and anger; being brought up in Hindi-Marathi Family, I have also seen north India very closely and I can safely conclude that Hindi-speaking people are utterly disrespectful, arrogant towards other cultures, this can be attributed to poor education standards and low average literate generations.
A few questions :
The most developed nation
è USA has very strong and strict security ring, it has suffered only one terror attack (of course we cannot count the number of terror attacks but still a single state Maharashtra has suffered more than the entire nation of the US). Person is made to go through numerous checks before he could enter
è And mind you, Barak Obama is planning to levy taxes on outsourcing to safeguard American interests and most probably discourage Asians to enter the US from now on.
We may lose cheap labor
è Security should, no, MUST be given highest priority. Next on the list should be Infrastructure. Rather than protecting and pampering the businesses and their interests, time has come to look towards overall development and thorough progress.
è Let’s be happy to lose this cheap labor as it finally brings imbalanced progress, lack of water, load shedding, roads with potholes, dirty public places and the queen of it all, slums.
Moving on with the culprits -
And yes, Let me congratulate the biggest winners: 1. Politicians 2. Media
The politicians in
Media had its moments too; referring to criminals by their community names is a sin in journalism. In
Why no one questioned Bihari leaders to why they failed to provide jobs in
Why every person born in UP or
Why is percentage of people in agriculture / agro-enabled businesses decreasing in states blessed with rivers like Ganges, Yamuna, Narmada, Indus,
When Issue of demographic imbalance can affect Amarnath Region, why is it given less importance in
Some criminal gets killed righteously by the police or someone gets killed in fight over seats in a train, why do media have to blame MNS without any proof ? and how does the very honorable Railway minister of
Why is that every other city in UP/Bihar is connected to Mumbai through railways while there are comparatively very few trains from Mumbai to Chennai/Bangalore/Kerala/Tirupathi ?
Of course, MNS’ stance is not at all good, but why don’t we concentrate on the hazards of migration ? why are we ignoring that Mumbai is one of the Least secure, Dirtiest, Polluted financial capitals in the world ?
Who knows Mumbai ?
Mumbai belongs to
Just to remind, 60 people lost lives in protests for Mumbai to be included in
Migration blues : Blasts in
Politicians/ruling party has allowed more than a million Bangladeshi migrants to caste vote in
Vote-bank politics desires many more Hindi-speaking people in
Myths pointing to declining culture in
1. People knowing Marathi speak in Hindi with each other
è I feel sorry for such misinterpretation. It is their courtesy that they converse in Hindi so that the crowd (
2. No one cares for Marathi, a regional language
è Marathi language and culture has never ever been confined to boundaries and regions. Marathis are still the most intellectual community in
è Marathi saahitya sammelan will be hosted in
è Marathi people’s generosity has been misunderstood to be their weakness, which is not so. You were, are and will be happily able to stay in
One culture of humanity and love :
We have never forced anyone to speak in Marathi,
MNS does not represent
But we want jobs for our Marathi brothers, we want peace for all of us. We want facilities for everyone. We are burdened with ever increasing migration and population.
Stop and start changing :
1. Jobs to locals a must ! Offer those jobs to outsiders only if they have been rejected.
2. Can we have something similar to passport ? So we can check person’s intentions when he/she enters the state. No-risk policy.
3. Let’s tell industrialists/builders : “If you want cheap labor, go to cheap places and recruit from there and bring them here on your responsibility only”.
4. Ask employers to provide for their employees’ stay and food till they are in ‘migrating’ stage.
5. Let’s put a full stop on Mumbai/Pune/Nagpur and other big cities in our state. Enough of population, enough of problems !
6. We need to take measures to stop migration towards Metros overall. Let’s try to build good facilities and structures in villages only and encourage youths to stay native.
7. Let’s stop trusting such media blindly, let’s put a control on our emotions. Protests/Agitations should be controlled and well-directed.
8. Someone’s killing/encounter in such conditions needs to be investigated deeply. People take advantage of political/regional/communal situations to promote their selfish causes.
9. Politics and media can take rest till then !
Deep down in Indian hearts :
Our nation has always pampered ‘the poor’, ‘the affected’, ‘the backwards’ …… Sadly, criteria and methods used to classify them have been age-old.
Supposedly poor people/regions/states can boast of their poverty or backwardness (ignoring causes they themselves are responsible for). Rich entities cannot claim so.
Being well-off and rich is a crime here; you can’t say you’re a Brahmin, you can’t boast of your successes/achievements.
Do we overtly care for the ‘poor’ ? Have we been able to improve their condition using these techniques ?
We claim that we are still a poor nation, that makes successful people in our country feel separated but we don’t care for them.
We won’t care when migrants from UP/Bihar (even people from
And when there’s talk of controlling this insurgency (yeah, that’s the right word) from outside, people start blame games.
A person can say proudly if he’s a beggar, belongs to lower caste, is poor (irrespective of his own commissions) but rich successful people cant be happy with their achievements (even if he happens to have earned it)
The problem, the issue, the pain-pin has been politically used and misused too.
In our Great nation, it’s a problem to be well-off. Your richness is misunderstood generally to be your naïve superiority over the affected and your being educated is considered your plain luck, your talent, your intellect is a gift to you and nothing else.
That’s just not fair with the better and successful citizens !
Wait before you criticize the society and the culture, there’s another face to it …… even the educated/talented/well-off people out here want to stay quite and inert. They wanna discuss US elections while enjoying holiday on poll-day. They feel Visa to
We love the poor so much that we wanna see them poor for their lifetime, we wanna let the under-developed part of the country as it is, our metros are dirtiest in the world and our most developed state is the most insecure too.
That’s