Hello Mr Thackeray

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Hello Mr. Thackeray
You may not be knowing me because you are a famous person and I am a common (very very common) person. Because you are famous, I have been reading about you. After reading about your past, you know I felt a certain bonding with you and hence this letter!
We have so many similarities!
We both were born in Madhya Pradesh. You were born in Dewas & my birthplace is Indore. You remember Indore? Hardly a half an hour drive from your Dewas. Even our Lata Mangeshkar has her roots in MP! Nice to know naa? We all have childhood memories in Madhya Pradesh.
Another (if you choose to call it a) similarity is – you are a Marathi born in MP, and I am a Bengali born in MP.
You can speak, read and write Marathi & Hindi, & I can also speak, read and write bangla & hindi.
You are now settled in Mumbai & I am settled in Delhi.
We are both Indians and we are both human-beings too. So many similarities we have!
Beyond this I don’t know what happened, I remained a simple common citizen of India and you went on to become a big politician. So big that your Maharashtra became bigger than India for you. You are doing so much for the maharashtrians that the educated maharashtrian community spread all over the country are feeling ashamed! They all thought they were proud Indians. Now they are getting somewhat confused. All the maharashtrians I know closely are so warm and adapting. Many of my Maharashtrian friends who fluently speak Marathi and hindi, have picked up bangla from me & I know they equally respect other languages too. They respect all the cultures. They are global citizens. Then what is the problem with you? Are you trying to become the Taliban of India? Do you think Mumbai can retain the same respect it has earned till now, if everyone other than maharashtrians is thrown out of the state?
Mr. Thackeray, we all love Mumbai and would definitely love to see it shine brightly on the world map. Mumbai belongs to the country and not just you. So please spare this beautiful cosmopolitan city and relieve our maharashtrians friends!

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10 Responses

Arnold Odem
March 10, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Howdy blogger I like your article
- Anita
  March 10, 2010 at 6:42 pm
  
  Thanks Arnold!Do Keep reading and sending in your comments.
malvina
February 11, 2010 at 3:54 pm

Anita,

The article was a good read…but you all need to understand one thing,Thackeray and his kith keen are not doing all this AMCHI MUMBAI buziness because they care for the AAM MARATHI MANUSE or for that matter any AMM ADHMI…

The Thackeray’s are running this as a BUSINESS proposition. His company(SHEVSENA)and His sister concern company MNS, has a vision ,mission,employees,strategies etc…

How will he feed himself or his fly if he stops all this ruckus…..
Somebody who is funding this companies must be targeted and smashed…then everything will come to TRACK.

Find the funder….then write a article on such point,it will generate more interest.
- Anita
  February 12, 2010 at 8:43 am
  
  The word ‘business’ is the really the apt word! Politics in our country is really a profitable business.You don’t don’t have to invest much on your education too.One just needs to the skills to psychologically exploit the masses.
Thangjam
February 10, 2010 at 1:28 pm

Hi Anita, great job, kudos to you .
prasad
February 3, 2010 at 5:38 pm

Dear Anita,

Goog evening, i m very glad to read your thoughts about mr. thakaray, ofcourse mr. thackaray is respective personality for whole maharashtra and for india also, why u have not mentioned that the poloiticians who controlleb bihar why not trying for employment generation, infact bihar is naturally very rich region having rivers for irrigations, mines, etc, as far as progress is concern bihar is having a big potential than mumbai or maharashtra, mumbai having certain limitatios, mumbai having limited space, there is no need to explain, the central govt and up bihar state govt dont want to progress up and bihar, if bihar and up get progressed then migration will definately will be controlled,

so think on it,
- Anita
  February 4, 2010 at 12:52 pm
  
  It is certainly the duty of every State to provide gainful employment to its people.But why spread hate? Why instigate people to harm fellow beibgs physically, because they are not native of a particular region? Then why are we condemning Australia? Educate the masses and make them able enough to compete with others.Spreading hate for immigrants will not lead to anything positive.We are a nation. When some tragedy strikes any part of the country, the army and commin people rush to help, without thinking about the region or language of the affected area.We cannot afford to fight among ourselves if desire to win the world as India.
  - Debashis
    February 17, 2010 at 4:31 pm
    
    Well said. This whole thing of insurality can be taken too far. Today, we shout for Marathi Manoos in Mumbai against all non-Bombayits. Tomorrow, we shout for our own community against all other communities. Or against the multinationals in support of the so called ‘home grown’ businesses (the typical communist ploy against ‘imperialist’ powers). Never mind that the owners of those businesses, and even the politicians in power, prefer to have their progeny educated (and their hearts operated on) in foreign lands, despite good educational and medical institutions in India.
    
    Pride for the country is one things. Jingoism is completely another. Sooner we get over such insularity and become citizens of the world (following the ancient Indian ethos of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’), the better we’ll be able to live and prosper in tune with the world.
A Banerjee
February 2, 2010 at 8:09 pm

Dear Ms Anita,
Kudos for an excellent article. However, Mr Thackeray( in this case all 3 of them), is not really bothered about your Maharashtrian friends who are outside Maharashtra because they are not going to vote in the assembly polls. He wants to target the mediocre, no good, below average citizen(and such specimens are in plenty, believe me) who is not interested in working hard enough but still doesn’t like his Bihari friends to work in his city…
- Anita
  February 3, 2010 at 8:49 am
  
  You are correct Actually this is a national problem.Everywhere the politicians are emotionally blackmailing the uneducated for votes, negating all the progress we are making in other sectors and trying to pull out the country from the abysmal state it was in.