Regarding the chaos in Mumbai, I find myself agreeing with the Mumbai janta. Please note the 'Mumbai janta'. The Mumbai janta, which includes the Marathis and also the non-Marathis, have a point. However, that point has been twisted beyond recognition by Mr. Raj Thackeray and Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav and the rest of UPite-Bihari Politicians. The point that Mumbai janta wants to make to the rest of the nation and the powers that be, is that Mumbai is filled to capacity, and has reached a limit where it can't accomodate any more people.
Every city has a limit to its growth, decided mainly by its population, level of industrialization, resource utilization, pollution and availability of food. For details, check out Limits to Growth by Meadows, Meadows, Randers and Behrens. It discusses the whole earth as the system, but we can easily make the analogy to a city. So, beyond this limit, the city cannot grow. Beyond this limit, the general living conditions start deteriorating as the same amount of resources, etc. gets divided amongst more people. So what the Mumbai janta wants to say is that Mumbai has reached its limit. No. Let me make a correction. MUMBAI HAS REACHED ITS LIMIT. There, that's better.
So, if Mr. Raj Thackeray really wants to help Mumbai, he should stop all this gunda-gardi, 'cos ultimately that's what it is, in the name of Marathi Sanskriti and get down to some solid work. Getting the government to develop new satellite cities to support Mumbai would be a good idea. Hell, it would be the best! It's working for New Delhi, isn't it?
So now that we've discussed that part of the issue, let's come to the second half. Mr. Raj Thackeray seems to have given the UP-Bihar politicians the best B'day gift possible. He has given them another non-issue, namely Marathi-bashing, to get over the elections. भाई, काम तो कुछ किया नहीं है पिछले २० सालों से. लालू जी, आपकी सरकार कितने साल रही है बिहार में? १५ साल या कुछ था न नम्बर? With no development and increasing lawlessness for more than 15 years, Bihar is indeed in a deplorable state. तो बिहारी जनता migrate नहीं करेगी तो क्या करेगी? पर बिहारी नेताओं को इस बात से कुछ फर्क थोड़े ही ना पड़ता है. काम नहीं किया तो क्या हुआ, अब बस एक-दो गरम-गरम speeches देंगे, बिहारियों का खून खौलायेंगे, २-३ train जलवायेंगे , votes तो मिल ही जायेंगे.
4 comments:
nice post.... but ye sabko pata hai ki na to Raj Thackeray ko Maharshtra se koi pyaar hai aur naa hi Laalu-Mulaayam ko Bihar-UP se.... Bharat-Varsh mein agar sabse jyada equality kahin dikhti hai to wo is desh ke Politics mein. Desh ke saare politicians(with few exceptions, jo thoda kaam bhi karte hain) ko sirf ek cheez se pyaar hai, VOTE. isliye unko koi solution bataane se koi faayada nahi hai.
ab dekhna ye hai ki log is baat ko samajhne mein kitna samay lagaayenge.
root of problem is shilpa shetty.. ussne hi to up bihar loota tha, isliye sab migrate kar gaye.
he he, jokes apart ... this is engineer speaking, nice.... very nice :-)
but don't worry, its always darkest before dawn
nice thoughts. you have gone to root of the problem.why this is so.
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