Being in Mumbai, in fact in office on Sunday (18/11/2012), when the whole of Mumbai was frozen following the demise of BST, I was amazed at two key aspects pertaining to the frugality of human thoughts and rational.
1. How could an individual be shaped by his peers and society to follow an ideology which purely had an emotional implication, deprived of any logic.
2. How could a self-centered soul seek, create and reinforce one’s undefined identity by reiterating a stand that was driven by sheer pride, prejudice and narcissism
Bal Thackeray, the roaring lion of the most endearing Aamchi Mumbai is clearly whom I’m referring to. I am not being plain judgmental about a person who has burned down shops of non-marathi citizens who were struggling to meet their ends in the city of trade. I also realise the other side of the coin depicted a regionalist hero who worked for his state. But lets look at it logically, India a sovereign, socialist, secular democratic and republic union, an amalgamation of polarsied cultures was defined on the sheer base that there had to be co-existence. One who questions that, I simply fail to understand, tagging him in a bucket of national heros who deserve a stae-wide bandh or a freaking holiday!
From what I have understood, he was a hypocrite with a xenophobic ideology. Period. None of his ventures could be listed as marvels towards social development. It becomes even more important to see how he shifted his target pool from a Marathi base to that of a Hindu nationalist one, thereby entering into national politics. I can draw comparisions of him with those of Hitler, Musolini or Stalin, but then I realize that we for a reason live in a democracy! Puppets, without an identity all of us are in some way or the other succumbing to lack of logic only to establish an identity for ourselves. For a fact, you and I are as well.
From what I have understood, he was a hypocrite with a xenophobic ideology. Period. None of his ventures could be listed as marvels towards social development. It becomes even more important to see how he shifted his target pool from a Marathi base to that of a Hindu nationalist one, thereby entering into national politics. I can draw comparisions of him with those of Hitler, Musolini or Stalin, but then I realize that we for a reason live in a democracy! Puppets, without an identity all of us are in some way or the other succumbing to lack of logic only to establish an identity for ourselves. For a fact, you and I are as well.
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