While most sane peoplee in the world are trying to fight issues l ike terrorism, are protesting against racism and general baseless discrimination .... we have Mr. Raj Thackeray having his goons beat up people from UP and Bihar for 'corrupting Bombay's Maharashtrian-ism' by no other means than simply living in Bombay! These are poor auto drivers, taxi drivers - people who contribute to bombay being bombay as much as anyone - maharashtrian, south indian, north indian, any indian, hell even non Indian.
Incidents likee these make me feel that I live in a country that occasionaly..or rather too many times... goes back to medieval ages marked by barbarism of a illogical and illiterate sort.
Sorry Mr. Freidman.. we don't live in a flat world. ....yet. We seem to live inside our own bubbles... which when popped are forced to face an ugly reality that we don't want to be part of.
Being proud of your culture - state, community, national, religious - for some reeason has become synomous with a paradoxical paranoid defense of it by attacking whatever seeems to threaten it. Isn't that what undermines it the most?
