Ah, the great Indian city! The lack of urban infrastructure destroying the infrastructure of the human soul. By 2020 Mumbai will have a population of 20 million. Bangalore, already with 6.5 million inhabitants has seen phenomenal growth. 300 million Indians... Read The Article
Voila..! You talk about Mumbai or Maharashtra and whole nation unites to accuse Maharashtrians of narrow-mindedness and rejects even to acknowledge that there is any issue in first place... Just add a Bangalore and you get a series of replies from South Indians... Many of whom are not afraid of making personal comments about the blogger. Now that's what I call double standards. Anyway I am happy that at least someone other than Maharashtrians have acknowledged the problem.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 22:07 )
Pushkar
Improve the Infrastructure. Make overall development of the entire nation. We must create on Mumbai in every state.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 20:32 )
Prashant
I agree with u Vaibhav.I m originally from Mumbai and I can understand what u r tryin to say. People who talk against all these are those who dont deal with these "outsiders" on a daily basis. Common people have to suffer through all the trouble these outsiders create. I think Raj Thackeray is right in whatever he's doin. If people want to come to Mumbai for work, they need to adopt local culture or atleast try to rather than imposing theri own culture. What does the blogger has to say about these people trying to make Hindi the official language of BMC and celebrating UP day in Maharashtra. None of the people from other states have demanded such a thing.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 19:59 )
Xanadu
Vaibhav, my blood will not boil by seeing people from other states in the city i live. Its our country, and everyone has equal rights to live at any place to earn livelihood. Rather steps should be taken to improve infrastructure, so that it can support all. Its not question of 'my city' or 'your city', grow out of this narrow-mindedness and think as a citizen of this country. -Jai hind
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 18:21 )
vin
my point is if india is a federal country where one has a right to live in any part of india and practise his religion and culture then on wat basis or wat right do someone have to tell them that they need to follow the local culture and language. If that is so then why say we are indians we can just say im from the country called karnataka or Maharashtra or whatever. Pls i ask all the so called chauvanists start issuing passports and visas before allowing someone from some other part of our country into ur place. Ridiculous. I have travelled abroad and i have so many freinds from Karnataka and i have seen how they crib about the step motherely treatment meted out to them in a foreign country. Its sad to see that people from their home state are indulging in such dadagiri on people from their own country.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 17:46 )
Everyone in this country have the right to go and settle anywhere. But not on the streets, not on the gutters, not on the footpaths. The huge influx of low skilled migrants from North India has put a lot of strain on Maharashtra's infrastructure. As a result, good law abiding citizens of this state are suffering.
Its a classical case: North Indians know their rights very well , what about your duties towards the state in which you aspire to settle ??
( Posted by Devdatt on Tuesday , May 13, 2008 at 14:40 )
Priya Banati
I'd request you to please substantiate this remark with more qualitative research: "For the first time in Karnataka, the "Kannadiga" identity is an important factor."
I am under the impression that this is false. The kannadiga identity has always been a political ball - albeit one that we took on as copy-cats post Chennai, Mumbai and perhaps even Thiruvanthapura. This isn't a new slogan that sprouted up in the recent years but has been a consistently planned approach ever since the BJP came to power. Deve Gowda as the PM of India has also insisted on serving up 'ragi modhas' to visiting designatories from other parts of the world - so I am not surprised to see his son and party continue on this obsessive sense of identity. What the govt (central and local) fail to address is a way for us to recognize and respect our diversity....in hope that we can eventually 'market' this as our sole success -- Instead parties like the BJP, Sena and regional others are consciously working to break this vibrant, varied fabric that is probably our USP in this 'modern' world.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 17:13 )
sojanya
What is this outsider means , we are first indian and after that we are bihari marathi kandigas tamilian etc , its my humble advice to those who are rising the issue of outsider and "son of soul" SHUT UP . Being and indian every one have rights to live and stay anywhere in india no can have any power to raise any type of comments or making issue over this topic .
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 16:37 )
Roney
People are becoming so selfish with themselves nowadays, world and globally things changes but there are huge set of people whose thinking goes to old days.
Thats why these kind of things happen, they say as my state , my city...blah blah ..wats all this noise, Its in a country vr they r residing not in a state, they have to speak from the point of unity and coordination of the country.
The Pledge "India is my Country, All Indians are My Brothers and Sisters.......... " it shows no values in states like this.
where there are some Associations, Politicians and parties who wanted popularity and they find this issues to be projected to get Claps from ail around, in adverse they are creating hatred within the People.
these people cant run with the highly advancing and faster moving Globe. So they find cheap trciks of their own, to support them there are people who have the same imbalance.
Let these people start thinkning about controlling population first than speaking about all this to avoid this issue to a good extend. Let these people start stopping Bribe and Corruption in the Country before speaking abouit this. Let this people help and aid low level people to come forward and le them work towarrds this.
They wont do all this, bcoz nothing "they get" by doing this, so the best way is making issues like this.
I feel they are the internal terrorizing factor of our Country nowdays. We have to stop them
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 14:48 )
Sreekanth.N
Kannadigas are polite, culturally inclined and welcoming. This is why we see more people pouring into Bangalore than cities like Chennai, Hyderabad or Trivandrum. Of course, the climate also is an important criterion. It gives immense pleasure to understand and respect other cultures and traditions. India is known for its diversity. But when a humble host welcomes a guest with gratitude and gets ruled out of his own house in course of time, being looked down at his practices, how does he feel. For Example: Bangalore is the I.T CAPITAL OF INDIA. But the World's largest search engine GOOGLE has Google.co.in offered in: Hindi Bengali Telugu Marathi Tamil
NO KANNADA......! Sounds a little too funny.. People come in to Bangalore and aggressively take charge of the local community, disrespect the local language with sheer unwillingness to learn it. They intern expect the localites to learn their language to converse with them. When we look at it broadly, we may feel National integration, economic interdependence are important and mere conversing issues or linguistic problems may look petty. But it is not being broad minded, in fact the broader aspect is that, a culture that has been built over hundreds of years, which has been running in the blood streams of people here, has build monuments of national pride, has given great literary works is being passively killed in the name of urbanization. True development happens only when technology accepts culture and not depletes it.
( Posted: Monday , May 12, 2008 at 13:46 )
well said sreekanth, kannadigas now have to converse in an alien language to do day to day business becuase of the influx of outsiders. For ex, even ATMs do not have kannada.
( Posted by lakki on Tuesday , May 13, 2008 at 12:25 )
reddy
How much ever one denies , the nationalistic feeling is missing from each one of us . People still talk about regionalism - which is not limited to states alone .Unless we overcame this , it is impossible for us to change or infact expect any one else to change . Probably the British should have divided the nation into different countries - like Europe , May be we would have been happy as an Indian Union
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