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 ®ional 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!!!
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These politicians never realize that with power comes responsibilities. For them its with power comes money and so they have to hang on to the power come what may. That's exactly the tiger's cub is doing, trying to enforce his power.
Hope you voted for RK Misra! He is good for B'lore and for India.
My thoughts exactly.......U bet I voted fr RK mishra!!!!Let's hope he brings abt a revolution in Bangalore&of course India..like he says..less words,more action!!!
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