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To South Mumbai:

South Mumbai, you study at Cathedral school, holiday in Cannes, eat kebabs at bade miyans, drink beer pipes at Leopolds and aperitif at the Taj, lecture at Davos, and fail in Hindi exams as a matter of honour. You refer to your part of the city simply as “town”. Your life may be the stuff of ou ....Read more

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True wordsBy: Darshan | Thursday , 14 May '09 16:22:19 PM Reply | Forward Brilliant article, and so true. Its time to wake up. The NY reference is well deserved. For people who wish to mock him for his thoughts, just try to accept blame once in a while and change yourself instead of trying to change everything around you.

hmmBy: cynic | Friday , 17 Apr '09 20:17:02 PM Reply | Forward lazy fool..stop passing the buck onto others and clean up your own mess. the easiest thing to do is to write an article where you say that others arnt doing enuf.

Inspiring and sensibleBy: Gautam Sen | Tuesday , 13 Jan '09 19:35:48 PM Reply | Forward Vinay, don't know why I didn't see this earlier. But this piece must surely be one of the most inspiring and sensible pieces to have emerged from the political tragedy that we have witnessed in the last few months in India. Thank you!

You light my CandleBy: SitaDaGod | Wednesday , 10 Dec '08 13:58:53 PM Reply | Forward Vinay is Da Gawd! The End.

Dec. 5 article " To South Mumbai"By: Jiva Mody | Tuesday , 9 Dec '08 11:33:00 AM Reply | Forward Mr. Sitapati, I read the reference to your article in the Sunday (Dec. 7) New York Times front page article by Ms. Somini Sengupta, and have shared it with my friends Mr. and Mrs. Milan Mehta among others. Mr. Harsh Taneja's comments below make some good points. By way of this article, you certainly have helped India, and one hopes the denizens of the syncretic India as well. No, sir, you are not pontificating nor sermonising unless they are synonyms for spelling out the facts. Thank you.

From a South MumbaikarBy: Zarina Mehta | Monday , 8 Dec '08 19:45:01 PM Reply | Forward Dear Sir,Your comments show your utter ignorance of the universal nature of people. We die when we are shot at

Suggest ActionBy: Rotna Das | Monday , 8 Dec '08 11:06:52 AM Reply | Forward So, if do DO vote, and yet feel helpless, can you suggest some relevant answer? Are elctoral reforms, as suggested by Election Commission in 2004, the answer?

to south mumbaiBy: ksingh | Monday , 8 Dec '08 6:22:02 AM Reply | Forward at last elite have faced what real india faces daily. realty climbing over the walls of taj. lucky the people of india have not yet decided to invade your world yet.

RefreshingBy: Mayank Patel | Monday , 8 Dec '08 3:21:29 AM Reply | Forward Dear Mr. Sitapati, It is very refreshing to read your thoughts expressed in this article, mainly because they urge the reader to see beyond the trite responses that have been put out lately. The "socialism by the elite" instituted by Nehru can still be strongly smelled in the corridors of our government. Ironically, the elite have always scorned the very "Indianness" of India. Your article is one of the few soul-searching ones that have come out recently, and I hope more will follow. Best wishes,MayankP.S. Somini Sengupta, who writes for the New York Times, cited your article in her recent column on the "long-isolated elite" of India.

Indians, wake up!By: Mital | Monday , 8 Dec '08 1:59:37 AM Reply | Forward Dear Vinay, Your pointers are really something that makes one think deep. Very beautifully written, very inspiring, and most of all- it is nothing but the TRUTH. It's time we gather our patriotism spirits that we have lost long back,

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