So would Hindus be safer if there was no response ever – including a violent response – to the centuries-old onslaught on them?

Do you think a local-outsider platform is somehow not bigoted, but a Hindu-Muslim one is? If so, why?

BTW, your blog is very good, and I believe that Raj’s arguments – especially his response to Sudheendra Kulkarni – are very convincing. It is just your comment about Modi which troubles me somewhat.

Warm regards,
Jayesh.

Dear D,

I appreciate your comment, but what you are propounding is that we should essentially be mute spectators to obvious discrepancies. How responsible is it in a democracy and what kind of a vision can we propagate if we only hammer on and on about the violence that has been sparked by the MNS agitation but never say a word about what causes it in the first place?

Regards.

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I am a Maharashtrian, and I am very proud to be one, but only second to being an Indian.
Secondly, I could very easily agree to your points, which seem very logical, but I think the educated people have a responsibility they carry to safeguard a society from being radical. This is the least we owe our society which has given us everything. You can make thousands of arguments supporting your views, and they will all seem perfectly fine, with the sole problem of vision, democracy and a sustainable future.

Regards,
D.

Raj Thackeray is probably a protagonist who’s fighting for a lost cause he once vehemently dominated during his glory days with Shiv Sena. But demeaning a community is certainly not a right way.

This praful character is an idiot. He has the IQ of the baby picture that he shows on his comments. There is no coherence, no reasoning, no organization in his thoughts. Forget about him.

If you are looking for a decent blog expressed by the people of Bihar, you should check out the following …

http://mohalla.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post_29.html

This is an emotive issue for the people of Bihar as well. I think the intelligent among them understand the need for reforms, but when idiots run the show they don’t get much of a chance. Of course there is no love lost for Raj Thackeray and interestingly they also think that Mumbai is on a decline (which makes me wonder about why they still have trains coming to Mumbai).

TIMES OF INDIA should win a prize for jingoism. And Bachi Karkaria should move to Bihar. I gather it’s a much safer place. The Marathis are so primitive! And of course, she will find many ‘angels’ in Patna. I think, Ms. Karakaria, do think about shifting your base to Patna. And don’t worry Ms. Karkaria, none of the avenging angels of Maharashtra will ever follow you there. Why, there is still a chance that Kannadigas will stream into Maharashtra, but thank God, they don’t have to worry about Maharashtrians doing the same because they won’t even allow Marathi Theatre buses into Belgaum! Ms. Karkaria, In Patna life will be peaceful. You’ll be able to talk in your Parsi-Hindi accent and nobody will poke fun at you. As you have said, it is a land of angels. You have tried to tame the Maharashtrian devils for a long time, but they just don’t listen, do they? I am a Maharashtrian who was in a minority in an Andheri Building filled with people from North India, and I was still able to terrorise them. You are witty Ms. Karkaria. I am now sure that Bal Thackeray was responsible for Bosnia and Czechoslavakia too, and the word Bal-kanisation! Not just witty, Ms. Karkaria, you are wise. And hence, it is beneath your dignity to stay among the primitive tribe of Maharashtrians, so what if they were given their state by the constitution? So what if lakhs of migrants from Bihar and UP live in unauthorised slums, use unauthorised means to get the taxi and rickshaw permits and live on unauthorised electricity? And then Raj Thackeray makes a point of the Railway Board examinations being advertised in only the Zone A (I am sure Ms. Karkaria that you know all about it) newspapers. Who the hell do the Maharashtrian think they are? Can they even read? Why should the Railway Minister coming from the Land of the Buddha give an advertisement in the Maharashtra who has produced no such enlightened being? Oh, these Maharashtrians will go ranting about Tilak who started Kesari and Acharya Atre who started Maratha and incidentally was the devilish mind who said that the Marathi speaking people should have a state of their own! The cheek of the man! The marathi speaking people never had a right of a State of their own, did they Ms. Karkaria? You call Rahul Raj, an avenging angel, Ms. Karkaria. You are truly blessed! Oh and these Mumbai Police! Maharashtrian fools of course! They shot the poor fellow! Of course as you know that Maharashtrian population in Mumbai is on a decline, so they thought that his fellow passengers and bystanders were mostly non-maharashtrians. But why did they have to worry about that? Wasn’t Rahul Raj an angel with the interest of Biharis at heart? He wouldn’t have hurt a fly! Just killed Raj Thackeray! And who needs Raj Thackeray anyway? That would get Mumbai one Maharashtrian less. How well you know us Maharashtrians, Ms. Karkaria. For 50 years, we welcomed everybody to make a home for themselves in our State just because we wanted to show the who the Boss was right? Ms. Karkaria, I don’t know why they call you Bachi, it sounds like Bacchi. And you have made such a mature comment in your article. I admit that my little pun on your name is nothing in front of your highly intelligent, mature and responsible pun on Bal Thackeray and ‘bal-kanisation’. But then I am just an ordinary Maharashtrian, Ms. Karkaria. When you do settle in Bihar, please let me know. I shall come there to seek job opportunities there with some of my Maharashtrian friends. And then you could teach me a thing or two about punning responsibly and intelligently. I see that you are stuck in a land of the devils when you actually are longing to go to the land of the angels where young men like Rahul Raj will protect you with Z security. I know, Ms. Karkaria that you have really been instrumental in shaping Maharashtra with your enlightened articles, teaching us how angels look like, but I think we don’t deserve you. Go, Ms. Karkaria, we won’t stop you.

http://musicandnoise.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-defence-of-marathi.html