Watched 'Mumbai Meri Jaan' today. Its about the aftermath of the serial train blasts in Mumbai in 2006. Realized that a city has a soul, a spirit, and an ethos. It has a life. It has emotions. It has flesh and blood. Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai - these great cities are such vibrant symbols of modern India that my heart wails to see them falling prey to such cowardly acts of terror as bombings and shootouts.
It seems that we really haven't learnt any lessons from history. About a hundred years ago, this nation was made to kneel down by Imperialists who played on the divisions between various kingdoms. These divisions still exist in different manifestations. Be it communal violence in Ahmadabad or regionalism in Mumbai, its these divisions which surface open threads in our fabric for anti-social elements to seep into. When a city's own people start hating each other, the whole fabric of the city comes tearing apart. The city weeps. Is it really that difficult to build a city of dreams in our motherland ?
रोके नहीं रुकते
आँसू मेरे शहर के ,
कैसे रोकूँ
इस खून खराबे को ,
कैसे तोडूँ
इन नफरत की दीवारों को
3 comments:
and after all that mumbai has gone thru and is going thru... all raj thakarey can think of is the bombay vs mumbai conflict n all they r worried abt is the maharashtrian vs non maharshtrian divide.... it pains to see that such ppl actually get votes on these grounds... we talk abt new generation joing politics.. raj thakarey is a part of this so called youth brigade but luk at the issues he's concerned abt n worse is our media that blows such ppl's views out of proportion n thats news for them... i wonder if it matters if mumbai weeps or bombay, its the same land, the same place, the same people... nobody wants to wipe the tears...real issues are forever masked under useless ones...
@anubha : very true :(
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