Monday, October 12, 2009  Mumbai vs Bombay: We The People - NDTV
Mumbai vs BombayIt was really sad to see the kind of discussion
that was going on, on the show. It seemed that Bombay (yes, it
sounds really awesome) was a city in Peter Pan's wonderland
where Alice and for that matter, Batman could also reside. I
could not see anything being said for development of the city
that Bombay is. We talk about making Bombay a world-class city.
Where, may I ask, is the will to pursue that dream? It surely is
not a concrete idea, just a dream.I understand that we, the
Indians, would put Don Quixote to shame, given the chance. But
bickering about what name a city should have, what kind of
people can live in the city and what rights must they have,
would not get us anywhere. Going by what I have said,
ghettoisation, if not annihilation (how Raj would have wished
for it), is what this would lead to. A labourer from eastern UP
or Bihar leaves his home to find a job in a city where the
natives consider it demeaning to perfo