Get angry, dammit & stay so
That's the headline of Govindraj Ethiraj's guest column on Rediff
Mumbai is angry. Not for the first time and surely not the last. Unfortunately, as always, it faces the danger of this anger dissipating and flowing away, into routine, into the usual, private, occasional outbursts. It risks dissolving into memories, into dinner table cribs and beer bar stories, into water cooler accounts in offices and, perhaps, bureaucratic laments.Read on.
This is how it has been: for all the city's spirit of bravery and resilience, it utterly lacks the ability to get truly angry.
This needs to change. Mumbaikars need to direct and vent their present anger effectively, individually, collectively and most importantly, over a sustained period. The present anger is and can be focussed on ensuring the BMC or the local administration in Mumbai's outlying towns do the basic, minimum work for the taxes they collect from their citizens and for the salaries they get paid
posted by zigzackly at 11:35 am
1 Comments:
well said.. Sometimes I feel like all of mumbai should throw all these politicians ,beauraucrats and builders into the Mithi river. Its disgusting to see Mumbai degrade to a level of gross apathy. The papers should stop romantacizing about the mumbai heritage and all its lost glory. Its neither London nor Shangai. Its a crumbling edifice of the Raj. Let mumbaikars take mumbai back. They have nothing to lose but their possesions, lives and loved ones.
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