The SO CALLED Regional Divide!!!

Being a Bombay girl at heart........ born & brought up in Bombay(I somehow don't like calling it mumbai...though some people may object to that too!!!).........it really pains me to see the Great language &regional hangama going on right now!!..............The beauty of bombay is in the way in which it holds its cosmopolitan community together....where people of all regions,caste&creed have always lived in harmony!!The cosmopolitan spirit is something that i'm proud to have imbibed from b'bay&its teaming millions..........

In fact the Common man in b'bay is extremely proud of this!!Come to think of it,I had friends from all communities-Marathi,gujurati,Muslim,Shetty,Sindhis,Punjabis,Marwadis,Keralites etc etc ......&we never once thought about each other that way!!We were just Bombay kuddis!!!The only thing that mattered to us is that we always had an amazing array of food to eat-from bhakarvadis to chats to idli-dosas,rajma chawal,puri-chole&of course wada pav!!

I spoke to some of my Maharashtrian friends&they're more offended &outraged by the comments rather than the Non-Maharashtrians!!!That's the spirit of Bombay..which no dirty politics can break!!

It's all very easy for some ill aboding politicians to say-"throw out the outsiders....but what would b'bay be without the Shetty udupi hotels,the northie bhaiyyas with their yummy bhel&panipuri,the sardarji taxi drivers,the hundreds of panbeedi&chai shops which are solely run by so called outsiders &are the pulse of Bombay city!!!

So Mr Publicity crazy Politicians -please divert ur attention to the hundreds of farmers dying in Maharashtra .rather than muddying the beautiful &harmonious environment of Bombay Meri Jaan!!!