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For Mumbai, a film on Shivajigiri

In the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance suffered a 0-6 rout in Mumbai, which was for long deemed a stronghold of the Shiv Sena. The Congress-NCP combine, which has for the past ten years run the worst government in Maharashtra’s history, should thank only one perso ....Read more

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Jai Maharastra, Jai Bihar, Jai HindBy: Naveen Bhartiya | Thursday , 4 Jun '09 15:18:10 PM Reply | Forward Dear Friend,Consider a scenario, I own a township and allow all to live there with full freedom. There should be some culture and ethos for that place. As time moves on, some particular communities tries to show their will over native one in the name of freedom and cosmopolitan.. Is it right that guest become owner of the premises and dictates own terms? and it is also wrong to show the frustration of native by violence means. This movie teaches both sides the ways to behave.Take another example, person from WB comes to Gujrat and asks every one to eat fish and on the other way round, Gujrati going to WB and tells there not to eat fish. Self restrain and mutual coexistance are the best way to survive and be properous. I am Bihari and I am fully agreed with Raj Takhrey's view and concern and I want to fight for his noble cause.But his working style needs some rectifications.Congress used him and that paid in this election. Jai Maharastra, Jai Bihar, Jai Hind.RgrdsNaveen Bhartiya

The sad state of Marathis in MumbaiBy: shobha | Tuesday , 2 Jun '09 12:38:08 PM Reply | Forward While the Constitution of India accords the status of "official language of the union" to Hindi, its uncontrolled and unwarranted imposition on innocent speakers of the language of the land outside the walls of central government offices is perhaps on an all-India high in Mumbai. Over time, the Marathis have been made to give up their own identity as speakers of a separate tongue called Marathi which is the lawful heir to the throne at Mumbai. Instead, Hindi has usurped that throne.Bollywood itself - the Hollywood of erstwhile Bombay - has no traces of the Marathi language left in it. The word Bollywood which should ideally denote the Marathi film industry is famous world over as the Hindi film industry. Hindi imposition seems to have worked such magic on the Marathi people that they seem to have given up hope of elevating their mother tongue to be the entertainment language of choice.Due to all this, the Marathis see that their language has been thrown into the dustbin.

Pathetic articleBy: ADS | Monday , 1 Jun '09 20:05:21 PM Reply | Forward It is really sad that Mr. Kulkarni is praising such a propaganda film. The Marathi people of Mumbai should be thankful to these 'outsiders'for Mumbai such a rich city. What would Mumbai be without these 'outsiders' in the city?Instead of this, political parties choose to target these hardworking outsiders and force their culture on others. Each and every community in Mumbai should be allowed to maintain their distinct identity. Mumbai always was and will remain a cosmopolitan city. It's not non-Marathis of Mumbai who should be proud of being Maharashtrians but the Marathis of Mumbai who should be proud of being part of this multi-cultural city.

North or south,people should learn and respect local languageBy: RAJESH | Monday , 1 Jun '09 9:48:17 AM Reply | Forward You earn your daily brad from here.you eat,drink and shit here.MUMBAI IS IN MAHARASTRA.so,why can't you learn local language.

Regionalism will break IndiaBy: Raj Singh | Sunday , 31 May '09 21:23:47 PM Reply | Forward I was born, brought up and educated in Mumbai where I lived in a society where 99 percent of the people were Marathi speaking. I have seen people who were hard working and they have made up to the upper ladder of the society. I have also seen lazy people who are now not so well doing, however, their parents earn well. Now it is very easy to blame our lack of success to the others (read as North Indians). Because that is the shortest way of taking the path of victim hood. India has plenty of leaders who want to come to the power by dividing the society. This trend was started by the Britishers, shamelessly inherited and expanded by the Congress and now have become a de facto norm of majority of the leaders like Mayawati, Raj Thackeray and Mulayam Singh Yadav who use the caste based politics to divide the people. It is us who needs to understand the long term implication of this venomous play. If we want United India then let us reject it or else let us do every thing to break it.

In India, Language is your Identity!By: Nachiket Deshpande | Sunday , 31 May '09 17:43:30 PM Reply | Forward Its easy to critisize someone. First understand what he(Raj Thackeray) is saying! In USA you have to speak their language which is english. They even dont allow to work their if you are unable to speak english. Being a Marathi I can learn Hindi on my own in some 6 months, then why cant these outsiders in Mumbai cant learn marathi in 20 years? He is not opposing Hindi but he wants preference of marathi language. Anyone can come as long as he is willing to learn and speak the state language. I agree Mumbai is a financial capital of India but dont forget that its a capital of Maharashtra first.

Mumbai is for IndiaBy: Daboo | Sunday , 31 May '09 14:26:06 PM Reply | Forward Shri Kulkarni, who is one of the innerwheel intellectual of BJP, has written `For Mumbai, a film on Shivajigiri' in the IE of 31 May 09. This write up which interalia takes up the issue of Maharastrian angast against outsider in Mumbai, proves the fact that so long as BJP has such fellow travellers, it will not succeed. Let me elobrate. The gentleman starts by claiming that `I detest and reject his (Mr Raj Thakrey) campaign against outsiders, North Indians in particular, believing that Mumbai belongs to all, just as India belongs to all' and ends his article by saying `The best part of the film-and this is where Raj Thackeray can learn a lesson or two to emerge as a reformed and more widely respected leader-is that Shivaji’s message is inclusive and not exclusive. It is not “anti-outsider”; rather, it exhorts that all the people living in Maharashtra, belonging to all caste, religious and linguistic backgrounds, should be treated justly and equally. The flip-side is also true: all of them, especially non-Marathi people, should be proud of being Maharashtrians'. Do you see the subterfuge and duplicity. On one hand he claims to detest Mr Thakrey but on the other wants him to succeed by adopting tactical modifications - not by jettisoning ideology of prochalism but by adopting some modifications. Most important statement is the last one, where Mr Kulkarni asks the non-Marathi people to be proud `Maharastrians' - please not not proud cosmoplotan Indians but proud Maharastrians. What has Mumbai got to do with Maharastra except for the goegraphical location. It is a city created by the British and later built up on by people from all parts of India. It is as much Maharastrian as Delhi is Punjabi.How will Mr Kulkarni feel if some Punjabi leader starts a movement in Delhi on similar lines as MNS in Mumbai and some one asks `non-Punjabis' to be proud Punjabis.

This film suckedBy: Samarth | Sunday , 31 May '09 12:15:56 PM Reply | Forward How can you compliment a film that is so vapid as Mi Shivaji... As a Maharashtrian myself I find the film extremely offensive and ridiculous. It is ostensibly a propaganda film. Mahesh Manjrekar was so obviously drunk in the film, his baggy bloodshot eyes and obese frame insult the memory of Shivaji Maharaj. This is the man who played a seedy don in Slumdog Millionaire, how can we revere him?Yes the film does strike a chord with many people, but I refuse to think that it does so with every Maharashtrian, even white collared professionals. The mistake which we middle class Maharashtrains have made is allowed our identity to be hijacked by this masquerader (Raj) who pretends to fight for our rights and misuses Marathi identity for his own political agenda. Just watch the coming months. He is going to muckrake even more in the buildup to the Assembly polls here in the hopes of sweeping the state - which I am sure he will do, since like Indians elsewhere Maharashtrians are easily distrac

Article with no coclusionBy: Alister | Sunday , 31 May '09 10:44:17 AM Reply | Forward we have read scores of articles with same flavour. nothing new.

Mr.By: J.Udayakumar | Sunday , 31 May '09 8:40:16 AM Reply | Forward Regionalism has been planted and nurtured by politicians in the minds of the people for narrow political ends as people for obvious reasons associate with it.In the end the politicians and their families stand to gain and the people are left with their problems, and the very issue for they are fighting are lost in the din.This vicious cycle continues for ever.

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