Mumbai is a shit
hole like any other metropolitan cities or big cities in India Let me explain
what is meant by shit hole. First and foremost is the deadly combination of
dense population, pollution, traffic chaos, dirt, clogged drains, dust,
ubiquitous trash both biodegradable and no biodegradable and animal as well as
human shit scattered all over. There is no civic sense in most of this country.
Everyone live in their house and treat rest of the city or town as a dumping
site. Things are much better in south india and far better in the north east.
Somehow hindi heartland including Punjab and Haryana are the worst shit holes.
Why should it be so? One way to look at it would be of course, there is no
civic sense and no shared responsibility. I guess one of the reasons for
absence of shared responsibility is because our society is so much divided,
stratified and fractured that one group doesn’t give a shit about another. In a
country where population is amalgamation of thousands of castes and sub castes
and sub sub castes along with different religions, sects and sub sects and
couple that with languages….it is a fucking wonder why this country doesn’t
fall apart. At the time of Indian independence, Marshal Tito, the father of
Yugoslavia declared that India would fall apart in a matter of few decades. The
man was wrong. Yugoslavia fell apart soon after Tito died and india like a sand
bag has been receiving puches and kicks again and again and still like a thick
skin beast refuses to go down. Sardars tried to have Khalistan and Nagas,
Asamees, Manipuris and of course Kashmiris are trying for their own homelands.
They too will fail and the reason again would be because in India every society
is divided and sub divided so much so that nowadays unequivocal consensus on
anything is nearly impossible. Even the fucking militants come in different
shades and with different agendas. Many of them are in for money and power. The
only real difference between militants and most politicians is that former fire
the guns personally and the latter have someone else fire the guns for them.
I was talking to my
taxi driver. I asked him about the politics of Mumbai. He was guarded but when
I began to abuse and curse the local politics of Thakre cousins, he opened up.
He too expressed his anguish and anger. Mr Sadique ofcourse is a muslim. So I
asked him about Modi. The man was of the opinion that it would be OK if he
comes to the power. There would be at least some peace in this country. His
opinion took me by surprise. I asked him what about thousands of muslims killed
and rendered homeless in Gujrat riots?
“That was bad” He
nodded his head.
“What do you mean by
bad? That was fucking one of the worst things to happen in this country since
partition. It was almost one sided with muslims at the receiving end” I goaded
him.”Look at the country and the states, which ever state BJP has ruled or
ruling with very few exceptions, in all of them there has been some shit thrown
at the minorities be it muslims or the Christians” I continued.
I was riled that a
muslim like the Mr Sadique, a man in his 60s, says something like Modi would be
good for the country.
“The muslims in
Gujrat haven’t been able to return to their homes since 2002. They are still
living in camps with hardly any relief from the state government. They can’t
even start a riot even if they wanted to because the community has been
hammered so hard by RSS and their cousins that muslims are just thankful to be
alive. Look at Karnataka, those motherfucking Ram Sene and others…In Orrisa
there chirstians got shafted”
“Sir…which news
paper or television channels do you work for?” Mr Sadique asked.
“I am not a
journalist. I am just a person who uses common sense and get pissed off whenever
he sees some shit that shouldn’t be there. And Modi is a huge turd, BJP is
trying to shove down the throat of this nation”
“No muslim will vote
for him” Sadique declared.
“And what about
BJP’s spokespersons like Shahnawaj Hussain and….what is the name of other
motherfucker?
“Whoever they are no
muslims listen to them. No muslims will vote for modi” Mr Sadique was quite sure.
“Look at me. I was born in Mumbai. My grandfather had come here but still they
treat me as a Bihari. Every time there is some trouble, it is biharis and
UPwallas who get buggered. And if you are muslim like me, you have to seal your
ass and run off. Some weeks back, you must have read about murder of young
woman. Police started rounding up taxi drivers, mostly people like me and they
beat all of them. Many taxi drivers left Mumbai. They said they will come back
after the investigations are over. Finally they caught the real culprit. But we
had to receive police sticks up our arses. That’s how it works here. Look at
that poster of shiv sena. No police will touch it even if it is violating the
municipal corporation’s norms. They are all bloody pimps.
“So why don’t you
muslims make your own national party like Mayawati in UP? She started with
Dalits and now she has Brahmins in her party but she is the boss.”
“Sir….we are
divided. No muslim comes forward. All the Netas join the party which gives them
seats to fight elections. They make their money and secure themselves for life.
Who cares about people like us?”
“Do you know about
that muslim MP in gujrat who got butchered?”
“Yes”
“You see…I will give
you an example…in a state like Punjab..no one likes to fuck around with Dalits
and why? Because they are mostly united. In Haryana it is not so and as a
result they get screwed from time to time. Muslims have to unite. If BJP,
offspring of RSS can become a national party after demolishing why can’t there
be a muslim national party?”
“I don’t know Sir.
All I know is that people should live in peace”
But they don’t.
Society is complex. All societies are. India is far better than Sub Saharan
countries. We don’t have organized mass sectarian violence like Nigeria and
Sudan. But Neighboring Sri Lanka learnt a lesson or two from Modi and laid the
state war hammer on Tamils. Sri Lanka got a bad rap internationally for that.
Heinous as it was, shooting Prabhakaran and even his young son point blank and
numerous Tamil civilians, at least Tamil Tigers had employed suicide bombings
on mass scale. Muslims in gujrat were and are just traders and Christians in
Karnataka and Orissa are not even remotely criminals of some stature. The Hindu
fundamentalist terrorists maintain that Christians are converting hindus either
by force or by offering money. So be it motherfuckers, at least the converted
are getting out of gutter called caste system enforced by hinduism. But no, on
reflection they are not. In this country even muslims, Sikhs and worst of all
Buddhists carry their castes along.
Divided country with
fractured polity, gutter politics and society so divided that it is in danger
of go on subdividing till one unit reaches the level of family.
The dirt, grime,
chaos, corruption, crime, the cities bursting at the seams, population
explosion and criminals if not murderers as politicians.
Man….Aam Admi Party
better do something about this shit.
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