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Give Peace a Chance
Dec 5th
Thank god the Gateway rally went off without any untoward incidents! I’m always thankful when my psychosis is proved wrong. J
It was quite an emotional moment for Mumbai I hear. People present tell tales of people breaking down and crying at the sight of our beloved Taj in tatters. Watching all the candle lighting, Mashaal holding and Jai hind ka Narabazi on the telly brought tears even to my eyes! I think it was a good cathartic action and really do hope outcomes of relevance can be achieved.
I totally loved some of the posters the people came with. Here More >
Citizen action or Passionate stupidity?
Dec 2nd
It’s been almost a week to the terror attacks and all of India has gone into an overdrive. Political action aside, citizens are so enraged they are planning all kinds of citizen protests, actions etc. We’re all feeling passionately about this whole episode, but there needs to be some level of practical thinking we need to have. For example, there have been these pleas running on radios, SMSs, emails etc for a congregation near Gate way of India tomorrow at 6. (3rd Dec)
Gosh! Can you imagine if we have any of the balance terrorists still loose in the city? The More >
The big Indian Blame game!
Dec 2nd
As usual after anything big that happens, people have to find someone to blame. Post the Mumbai terror attacks, Politicians are going into a tizzy demanding each other’s resignations. They’re so busy blaming each other and asking for our votes in the same breath that they’re really not doing anything about the security situation we have at hand.
I was watching this interesting piece of reporting on CNN IBN yesterday. They were calling it the operation water Rat (you know Indian telly with their inclination to drama!).
Anyways, the piece had a smart looking reporting doing a dry run of More >
Times… they are changing!
Dec 1st
I have lived in cities like Bangalore, Calcutta and Mumbai and have spent considerable time in each of them. I’ve been in Mumbai for over 5 years now and there have been quite a few things that have happened in these years that have made my mum call me in hysteria to ensure I was ok. Here are some of the incidents I remember
- The floods of July 05
- The train bombings of 07
- The multiple bomb blasts of 08
- Three different occasions of unrest when MNS chief was arrested and Mumbai shut down
- The terror attacks of 26/11!
I can’t remember such times in the More >
A new era of Indian Politics?
Nov 24th
As Indians, I am sure all of us are quite used to watching the babu type politicians that we have for leaders, shout, fight and generally create ruckus over everything. It’s quite a common sight watching them lift their dhoti in annoyance, bang tables, chairs and throw books at anything that appears like opposition. They give long fiery speeches in their regional languages, labour through their English and try their best from refraining from spitting their pans during a TV interview. They rave and rant and wave their arms as if the world will come down if the merest change More >
Mumbai: Culturally diverse or inherently Racist?
Oct 10th
So many cultures, religions, regions… Mumbai would call itself proudly a city with many hues. There are allegiances to faiths, religions, regions, states, casts, and god know what not and yet we manage to live in relative harmony. Most of the time, that is…
The preamble to the Indian constitution states that we promise to ensure equality in status and in opportunity and yet on a daily basis our politicians pass out decisions and make speeches that are against equality. If Raj Thackeray’s rant on about ‘Me Mumbaikars’ and ‘outsiders go back home!’ is not a racist outlook then nothing is! More >
Terrorist Alert or Inflation Control?
Aug 5th
We all know about the multiple bombs that have been going off in all our big cities… Bangalore, Ahemdabad, Surat…. The scare is touching all cities with people in Mumbai, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Chennai wondering when the terror train will hit their cities, Astrologers going in mystic convulsions predicting the next city to be hit, TV channels having a blast zipping from one bomb site to another and causing more panic with their dramatic overtures.
55 dead and more injured… that’s just one of the more obvious impacts of the terror attacks. But what else is happening because of this? People More >
