Comments on Lost and Found!: Mumbai Meri Jaan!

I still prefer Victoria Terminus (or VT) over CST....

2008-10-30T10:08:58.810+05:30

I still prefer Victoria Terminus (or VT) over CST. How was shivaji ever associated with VT when it was made by the BRits to connect the different states under their rule. And equally sad is renaming Connaught Place as Rajiv Chowk. And there has been a talk about renaming Ahmedabad for so long...

Anyway I guess its still better than extreme regionalism that so many of us show. Kill, destroy and burn seems to be the magic mantra, not for India but India itself. Such a loss of faith for these so called 'Nationalist parties'...

Maybe it's true. Maybe it starts with changing the...

2008-10-29T21:57:11.500+05:30

Maybe it's true. Maybe it starts with changing the name.. I know, the names we are used to might sound "firangi" but as long as we are comfortable with them and are secure about who we are, why do we need to change them? Bangalore became Bengaluru... what's the point? Nothing changed. I sometimes still feel unwelcome in the city, maybe because I am a North Indian; maybe because I am a woman.. I don't know... Maybe its just Bangalore. It is the way it is. The distorted minds are in our own cities, every city.
The question is,just how many thousands of pieces can we break this country in?!

absolutely, bombay was and will always be a trade ...

2008-10-29T11:43:53.321+05:30

absolutely, bombay was and will always be a trade project in some or the other scale... for an individual or even a nation..
I guess, the two different needs are being wrongly mixed and misused for benefit of few groups and largely for politics.
The need for saving 'marathi asmita' can better fulfilled through promotion of rich marathi literature, plays and other forms of art which are on the verge of being extinct.
The other need, the reason for the reluctance to share the 'borowed spoils' is a different and equally important issue... Yes these both things are interlinked but not the way they are shown to be!

I guess you are right Arun but it may not go down ...

2008-10-29T10:11:38.576+05:30

I guess you are right Arun but it may not go down well with many...

After all, it no longer remains Bombay also...a few few started the process by changing the name and now they even want to change the character of the city. The process seems irreversible and the results sad!

Bombay was never a Marathi city - it began as a Br...

2008-10-29T00:40:30.086+05:30

Bombay was never a Marathi city - it began as a British (trade) project! (So were Calcutta and Madras)

Marathi 'asmita' cannot be saved by refusing to share borrowed spoils.

may be u will have to copy paste the URL in addres...

2008-10-28T01:29:43.684+05:30

may be u will have to copy paste the URL in addresbar to link..

Sid... I wish we had some control over the authori...

2008-10-28T01:28:16.738+05:30

Sid... I wish we had some control over the authority which takes off these so called masks and mostly just changes them!!!! A balloon never makes noise when it's being inflated... it makes noise only when it bursts.... Who does inflate it? and why?
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