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She doesn't spare anybody, including the national capital, going to the extent of calling it a ‘hydra headed monster’ that ‘remote-controls the rest of the country’ and ‘a symbol of the corruption and rot that have destroyed the image of India’.
However, she sounds a little soft on Raj Thackeray, not on the ugly 'migrant' debate he has stirred in India's economic capital, but on the average Mumbaikars' concern about the over-burdened condition of their city.
"Even though I am entirely pro-free movement, and condemn balkanization of any kind, may be Raj Thackeray had a point. Pity, he didn't make it convincingly enough. In the bargain he triggered off a national debate on 'outsiders in our midst'," she writes. Though she had no sympathy for Raj Thackeray and his movement, but an understanding of the issue he has raised, De claims.
"You have to be in Mumbai to understand the rage if there is any," De said, while in the capital to release her book recently.
I have lived in Mumbai and closely experienced the behaviour of Mumbaits to outsiders. Although, Raj may have some point, but then where will the people seeking job go?
Marathi journalists Kumar Ketkar and Shobha De say that Raj Thackeray is the loose cannon in Maharashtra politics but at the same time say that Raj has been very careful in his speech and has also cleverly kept himself away from rhetoric that can legally trap him. What a load of bullshit from Kumar Ketkar and Shobha De. What they have said about Raj is nothing but pure unadulterated sycophancy and ‘cheap chamchagiri’. What all the three Thackerays have been spewing from their dirty Fascist mouths is nothing but ignorant, incompetent, 'loose tongue' rhetoric with a lot of nonsensical sound bites. In fact like his 'loose tongue' semi-literate and senile uncle, Raj has totally entrapped himself legally. It just requires a gutsy writer, journalist, politician, lawyer or a policeman to lift the full entangled web up for the whole nation to see where this insect-sized 'icon' has been trapped.
Raj Thackeray at his rally recently categorically said that he was preparing to take the law into his own hands, asked his goons to do the same by saying "take action whenever you feel necessary” and "Don’t wait for instructions." He further said that “If …….so and so…. distributes sticks to north Indians, I will distribute swords to Maharashtrians." All this is clear indication that these thugs, feeling the need to arm themselves against a threat they believe to be all too relevant to them, have been purchasing various items which are illegal to own, possess, procure and distribute. Each and everything that he has said above attracts the provisions of several statutes since it shows that with all intents and purposes they intend carrying out criminal acts and yet the police say there is nothing in his speech to arrest and prosecute him? Who are the police, Mr Deshmukh, Kumar Ketkar and Shobha De trying to delude and fool?
It does not require a legal luminary to point out that all of Thackerays’ rhetoric all these months and years have included incitements of various degrees and sorts including incitement to hatred of particular, caste, class, race or religious group and incitements to commit various criminal acts and incitements likely to cause breach of peace and so many such words and deeds that can lead to violence or threat of violence or killings or that which are likely to endanger the peace and tranquility. They have openly threatened and carried out many acts of vandalism and criminal damage to properties. There are several statutes and charges that can be applied to their words and actions. Raj Thackeray at his rally recently categorically said that he was preparing to take the law into his own hands, asked his goons to do the same by saying "take action whenever you feel necessary” and "Don’t wait for instructions."
Born Maharashtrian (Rajadhyaksha) and married to a Bengali (De), she is in a real fix about what to say! So she gives such "neither here nor there" ("narovaa kunjarovaa" style made famous by Dharmaraja in Mahabharata) replies which you can interprete any way you like and don't make any sense anyway.....just like most of her books. Just pure trash!
the real PM OF INDIA IS ...."UNCLE QUOTTROCHI"SO SAYS SHILA DIXIT AND ALL OTHER MINISTERS...we are told that,IN THE UPA GOVT,,,EVERY PERSON BEFORE TAKING AN MINISTRY JOB OATH, HAS TO SECRETLY PROMISE TO DRINK NIM JUICE EVRY THREE HOURS A DAY....OR IF MAN,,,, JUST BE CASTRATED AND TAKE THE OATH.....OR JUST A DOPING MAY SUFFICE AS A LAST RESORT......
yes india is capable to be super power....ONLY ONE BIG PROBLEM...."""THE U.P.A. AND CONGRESS...."""FOR SIXTY YEARS INDIA HAS BEEN SENT BACKWARD BY THESE "GOONS"AND STILL THERE ARE TATAS,AMBANIS,NARAYANS ETC WHO SHOULDER THE PROGRESS OF INDIA...WHY THESE OR OTHER CROOKS DON'T HAND OVER THE MINISTRY TO THEM ????we are told that,IN THE UPA GOVT,,,EVERY PERSON BEFORE TAKING AN MINISTRY JOB OATH, HAS TO SECRETLY PROMISE TO DRINK NIM JUICE EVRY THREE HOURS A DAY....OR IF MAN,,,, JUST BE CASTRATED AND TAKE THE OATH.....OR JUST A DOPING MAY SUFFICE AS A LAST RESORT......
INDIA A SUPER STAR OR POWER? MY FOOT! INFACT BOTH MY FEET! A COUNTRY INFESTED WITH PRIDELESS COWARDS WITHOUT ANY SELF RESPECT ALWAYS OUT TO APPEASE THE MUSLIMS BECAUSE THE HINDU COWARDS ARE SCARED SHIT OF THESE PEOPLE, CAN NEVER EVER BE A SUPER POWER.
Harish, I seriously think that you should undergo some sort of therapy. You seem to be harbouring a lot of anger towards muslims. I suspect that this bias might be affecting your daily judgments and decisions.
G a - - Mein Dam Nahi Hum Kise Se Kam Nahi. Shobha De knows very well that if she says a single word against that Thag-gaaray it will be difficult for her to live in Mumbai. She understands this thing much better that the point of Raj Thug-garray
Time for the bollywood to produce the show," De and Thackeray, The super star".
Last few big issues in Delhi - economic and social. Jessica Lall, Priyadarshini Mattoo, reservations, demolitions etc. - all point to socio-economic change. Last few instances of unrest in Mumbai - banish north indians, burn mumbai because the BMC didnt prevent a pigeon from soiling Mrs. Balasaheb Thackeray's bust, anti muslim riots at least 3-4 times in the last 4 years etc. Hmm, I wonder. Which one is the hydra headed monster?
India can never become super star or super power as long as there is one law for the rich and influential and another law for the Aam Admi. It is as simple as this. Democracy does not mean just one person, one vote. It also means equality before the police, the government, the boards, the committees and the judiciary. The day the police treat no one above the law and has the courage to arrest from a cabinet minister to common person for any misdeeds, that day India will become a SUPER STAR. Just read that even Queen Mary in UK had to carry an ID card during the 2nd World War. Here we have SRK threatening that he should be above the rules of the game. With people like this, there will never be a Super India but only pampered Indians and their chamchas.
This is spot on!I have not come across many people who could describe Indian problem so well. As treatment of any disease begins with diagnosis, hopefully more people become aware of that, more could be done for that!
I completely fail to understand the hype about India shining and super India. Its all talk and no reality until we manage to get rid of the legacy of Raj that we still carry - red tapism, bureaucracy, and inequality in all aspects of society.
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