We have to thank the self-proclaimed preservers of the Maratha culture like Bal Thackeray and the offsprings of his fundamentalist ideology, please read Maharashtra Navanirman Sena, to further divide our already divided country. The division of Indians on the basis of Maratha and non-Maratha and the exodus of many thousand north Indians from the state in the recent past is a shame to the much celebrated belief of ‘unity in diversity’. I seriously wonder why don’t they remove it from the school textbooks, isn’t the concept almost redundant?

Once again, the state of Maharashtra has attracted attention with the MNS asking shopkeepers in the state to write the name of their shops in Marathi. Don’t take me as anti-culture. I am as proud of our rich Indian culture as you are, but I am not for imposition. Why are we forcing everyone to do as we like? Don’t we live in a democracy where we can do as we please as long as we are not crossing anybody else’s right? The fundamentalists negate both, they impose and they interfere with the fundamental rights of others. Shouldn’t the MNS be writing the name of their office in Marathi with a hope that others will follow? I thought that was the correct, Gandhian way to do things.

do check out http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Now_MNS_trains_guns_on_cable_operators/articleshow/3414650.cms

Being as objective as I can, I think the Bal Thackerays and MNSs suffer from an inferiority complex. How else will you explain their infantile obsession to force others to play along with their whims and fancies?

Via timesofindia

In all honesty, the name Sanjay Nirupam would not have really rang a bell anywhere till the recent Bigg Boss participation by the man. Yeah yeah, he is a politician of sorts. But did we know anything more about him? Well, I don’t think so. But the man sure lives in delusions of grandeur. Believe it or not, on his ouster from the Bigg Boss house Nirupam told the media how the real-life-show experience was fulfilling as he got a chance to “live with commoners”.
Well, is that what we are to the likes of him? By that ‘we’, I mean the celebrities participating in Bigg Boss. If someone of their name and fame are like an ant to Nirupam, I guess people like you and me won’t be anything more than a unicellular organism. And we used to believe that politicians are our representatives. Weren’t they handpicked by us from the crowd that we now belong to? I am forced to wonder when did the blue blood complex creep in?
For the uninitiated, Nirupam grew up in a village in Bihar and gained media mileage (whatever little it was) only when he was asked by Bal Thackeray to play editor to one of his print publications and later was made the Shiv Sena MP to the Rajya Sabha until Nirupam decided to resign in 2005 owing to his friction with Pramod Mahajan.
After being evicted from Bigg Boss and having earned the criticism of his inmates (the ‘netagiri’ didn’t go too well with them either), let’s see how ‘King’ Nirupam makes life worthwhile for “commoners”.
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