Everything burns

The recent happenings in Bombay have… frustrated me to say in the least… I say frustrated for the lack of a better word… I cant say I’m sad or upset, because I don’t think that is it, I could be downright rude and at the risk of sounding like a total nut case have found it a bit funny on a very ‘Joker’ level, if you know what I mean.

I was born in Bombay. I’ve lived here all my life except for the trips outside the city. But Bombay is what I call home, there has never been any city that feels quite right once you’ve been here. All my life I’ve been proud of  everything this  city stood for. A city that anyone could come to and make it their home. A city that let you just be yourself and stretch your dreams to their hilt and make it reality. So many alternative careers have been born out of this very fact. I remember reading in a book that this was one city where no one needed to go to bed hungry at night. A city even while bursting at its seams always ready to accept just one more person foolish enough to dream he could make it big, when he knows deep within he’s smaller than an amoeba in this huge universe somehow squeezed into a city. 

Quite frankly, the recent developments don’t scare me because if the city had to have its downfall, it could have been done so many times before. In no chronological order(I suck at remembering dates of historical events), the numerous blasts that ‘ripped the city apart’ (as the media loves to phrase the incidents), during the racial riots that  were caused by idiots and their uncles(pun intended), by the closing down of the numerous mills and small industries, the increasing crime rates and the even more dangerously increasing crime rates, hell if man failed, in the natural calamities caused by God in the recent years-namely the rains that do try to drown parts of the city every year. If its survived all of this, I don’t think I can be called crazy to expect it to do so even now.

Coming to what this is really about, I think every night Raj Thackeray must be looking into his mirror(and I’ll bet every last penny I have that it was NOT manufactured by a ‘Marathi manoos’), and must be laughing, enjoying the feeling of puppeteer. Or like in those old sci-fi movies, where the villain looks into this automated globe like thing which focuses on chaos caused by him the city over. I really pity the people who honestly and oh so naively absorb every piece of crap he flings at them. I mean the man is such a coward, he cant stick to what he himself says, he twists around his own words more often that a compulsive liar. To name a few, the craziness about sending all kids to Marathi medium schools. Besides the hypocrisy that is literally dripping from his mouth along with the drool that I’m sure he oozes while watching in his secret oracle his minions rush to do his bidding, it doesn’t even make sense, cause there are very few(if any) institutions for education beyond school that teach in regional languages, unless you are studying the language itself. So even if a person is extremely literate in the stuff taught at school, he ends up being a failure while trying to cope up with the much higher level of studies, that too in a language he is not well versed with. Also the more stupid fact about not letting non-Maharashtrian’s take up jobs here, in fact not even letting them sit for exams for jobs for which they could be posted anywhere in the country.  For the people who gladly agree and follow, shouldn’t it go both ways? Call back all the marathis working anywhere other than in the state and let them work here for whatever measly job and pay they might get, stop using products built anywhere other than here, stop using anything that has to do with anything/anyone outside the state.

Not to mention the incredibly stupid fact of beating people up. For someone who claims to be seriously inspired and what not by the brave Maratha , Shivaji, going around like idiots beating people up, destroying their own public property and irrevocably causing damage to their own people seems mighty cowardly and DUMB to me. And even greater heights of stupidity are achieved with naming everything after Shivaji. Recently a paper carried an article about the confusion caused due to the names of the 2 airports in the city being exactly the name, again named after Shivaji. I mean the future of this city is prolly being named shivaji city and every road every crossroad being named the same, all institutions, buildings, every damn thing that can be named be named after shivaji!! (I’d ask them to leave the public toilets unnamed atleast!)

Honestly, I fail to see why so few people can actually see through what the man is trying to do. What I understand is him actually sending across a message to terrorists, to rival countries, to the global recession even. And the message I get is this:

We don’t need the global recession to affect us. We don’t need you other countries to hire and fire us either. We can very well take care of shutting down industries and ruining our financial developments ourselves. We can manage without giving valid reasons, the throwing out of perfectly able employees even when we don’t have people to replace them with the simple excuse that they are outsiders. We definitely done need you terrorists wanting to waste your precious time trying to destroy us. Perfectly capable of doing that ourselves too thank you very much. We can hit right at the key spots that can cause enough conflict which will eventually cause the whole country to go down in flames. You can invest all your efforst towards other countries that are more united and that are trying to move forward rather than backwards like us. We also don’t need other countries giving us competition. We shall soon be signing out of the competition cause we don’t want our people to be educated enough or let them come up financially to take on anyone in our own country let alone the world.

Everyone else can just sit back and watch and enjoy a private laugh like we do at night n front of the television screens while the news channels earn their money airing all the above incidents.

Laugh and enjoy while ‘everything burns! Ha Ha Ha!’- The Joker

Hmm... my first post to do with something relevant to more than just me!! well, i hope this doesnt offend anyone's sentiments... though you know i mighty well dont care if it does :|

ive tried to put across too many points and it may seem disconnected, but i just had to get it all out at once! read with an open enough mind to let the thoughts move around, but not so open that your brains fall out!

I would especially love to have your comments on this post, either here or thru IM as always or mail or whatever floats your boat to know how you feel on the issue

there.. a diplomatic post with a diplomatic little speech in the end... :P