There really is no title that can be given, cheeky or otherwise, to the sheer idiocy that some people can get up to sometimes. And that is slightly scary...
Right wing conservatives and even extremists exist in practically every nation in some way or the other...but I doubt it really takes the form it does in India, anywhere else...
There's a politician called Raj Thackeray who has recently been focusing on immigration issues. His uncle is the leader of the Shiv Sena political party...who are tremendously pro-Hindu and anti-outsider (xenophobic?) of non Marathi people, working and living in the state of Maharashtra.
The uncle gained prominence forty years ago by threatening south Indian people living in Mumbai, bodily harm unless they left and allowed Marathi (native) people to get their jobs.
Now, nephew is trying the same, against north Indians and actually inciting communal divisiveness and hatred.
Whatever happened to sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic of India?
His party members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (The Maharashtra Revival Army) have recently been physically assaulting north Indian people living in Mumbai and causing damage to their property. The call is again, to let the Marathi man have his job.
I have no issues with fighting for the rights of the local people but there are more constitutionally sound ways of doing it...physical abuse is definitely not the right one.
And truth be told, there is so much laziness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit in most Marathi people that it's not surprise that their diligent north Indian brethren do better in the economic powerhouse, which is Mumbai...
Having done all of this through his speeches (Yay for democracy and free speech), Raj Thackeray was arrested today and produced in court. Lo and behold...the moment this happens, people start throwing stones, torching buses and buildings in "protest" against this action...
Seriously, how many of them are actually political activists and how many are miscreants?
When will these people realise that the damage they do is fixed from their own taxes?
We had to let the children go home early today...one parent who'd come to pick up his daughter said that it seems human life has no more value here. Killing doesn't seem to be a big deal, nor being killed.
Scary...but not far from the truth.
Unfortunately, the rot in politics is set so deep that unless ALL politicians are lined up in a row and shot, there will never be a new order.
The moment Thackeray was arrested, squads of policemen and anti-riot officers were dispatched across the city.
I did not encounter any violence where I went but there were reports of mischief from other parts of the city.
I know the police are there to help and one really has to admire them. How does one decide to go into a job in which you could face physical danger on any day? At the same time, how can one get to such a point in their lives that one can physically harm another human being? I suppose it's just the stuff that you're made of, that counts. I couldn't do either...
No untoward things happened on my journey home and while the police were supposed to make one feel safe, I couldn't but help wonder and feel a little unsafe because of them. Their very presence was a reminder of what sort of violence could be lurking beneath a seemingly calm exterior...
Paradox?
Right wing conservatives and even extremists exist in practically every nation in some way or the other...but I doubt it really takes the form it does in India, anywhere else...
There's a politician called Raj Thackeray who has recently been focusing on immigration issues. His uncle is the leader of the Shiv Sena political party...who are tremendously pro-Hindu and anti-outsider (xenophobic?) of non Marathi people, working and living in the state of Maharashtra.
The uncle gained prominence forty years ago by threatening south Indian people living in Mumbai, bodily harm unless they left and allowed Marathi (native) people to get their jobs.
Now, nephew is trying the same, against north Indians and actually inciting communal divisiveness and hatred.
Whatever happened to sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic of India?
His party members of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (The Maharashtra Revival Army) have recently been physically assaulting north Indian people living in Mumbai and causing damage to their property. The call is again, to let the Marathi man have his job.
I have no issues with fighting for the rights of the local people but there are more constitutionally sound ways of doing it...physical abuse is definitely not the right one.
And truth be told, there is so much laziness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit in most Marathi people that it's not surprise that their diligent north Indian brethren do better in the economic powerhouse, which is Mumbai...
Having done all of this through his speeches (Yay for democracy and free speech), Raj Thackeray was arrested today and produced in court. Lo and behold...the moment this happens, people start throwing stones, torching buses and buildings in "protest" against this action...
Seriously, how many of them are actually political activists and how many are miscreants?
When will these people realise that the damage they do is fixed from their own taxes?
We had to let the children go home early today...one parent who'd come to pick up his daughter said that it seems human life has no more value here. Killing doesn't seem to be a big deal, nor being killed.
Scary...but not far from the truth.
Unfortunately, the rot in politics is set so deep that unless ALL politicians are lined up in a row and shot, there will never be a new order.
The moment Thackeray was arrested, squads of policemen and anti-riot officers were dispatched across the city.
I did not encounter any violence where I went but there were reports of mischief from other parts of the city.
I know the police are there to help and one really has to admire them. How does one decide to go into a job in which you could face physical danger on any day? At the same time, how can one get to such a point in their lives that one can physically harm another human being? I suppose it's just the stuff that you're made of, that counts. I couldn't do either...
No untoward things happened on my journey home and while the police were supposed to make one feel safe, I couldn't but help wonder and feel a little unsafe because of them. Their very presence was a reminder of what sort of violence could be lurking beneath a seemingly calm exterior...
Paradox?
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