Mumbai is the heart of the country. The financial capital of India. A place where people pay 33% of nation's taxes. Where does the state as in "The State" of Maharashtra stand in the race ? No where .... Not to be seen.
Reality check.
Name me more than 5 cities in Maharashtra that you know.
Wait I'll help you out with it :
After Mumbai :
1. Pune
2. Nasik
3. Nagpur
4. Aurangabad
5. #########
What happened ?
Something missing here ?
Do you feel the picture is incomplete?
U ever been to Gujarat (by train)?
Prepare a similar list :
1. Valsad
2. Navsari
3. Surat
4. Bharuch
5. Vadodra
6. Anand
7. Ahmedabad
8. Gandhi nagar
9. Rajkot
10. Jamnagar
11. Surendranagar
12. Mehsana
13. Gandhidham
14. Porbander
This list can go on and on ... my point is that every station is industrially developed. They have Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation well established. Mumbai, because of this city, the focus has shifted in Maharashtra.
I have studied at a place in the interiors of Maharashtra (Khandesh - Malegaon, Dhule) aka North Maharashtra. I was at Dhule. This place was Jurassic Park for me. Lucky me I did not find any Dinosaurs. Probably because there wasn't a single museum in a 500 km radius. That place seems like the epicenter of the last Ice age. The place where people have no railway stations. Oh god ... No, I have mistaken. There is a railway station at Dhule. The only problem is that within a span of 24 hours of any given weekday, only a single train arrives at the place. The name of the train is Dadar- Amrutsar Express. No MIDC thats functional. It just has perfectly functional gates and a BSNL office .... wait thats fucking BSNL. So no reprise there too. No companies that employs engineers despite of having 6 engineering colleges and 3 medical colleges. Moreover the dirtty politicians are building other 3 engineering colleges for converting black to white (or green or gold). That place used to have 9 hours regular power cut off's in the month of April, May and June. Thats the period when the exams get conducted too ... no wonder I had so many KT's.
:P
The roads were laid when we heard the news that our PM Manmohan Singh was going to visit our engineering college. DDT sprinkled in the gutters, the walls repainted, the college gate (only the front visible portion) painted, the section of the building visible from road side repainted. Big tambura prepared for the PM speech. Alas PM had change of plans, and eventually he skipped the special appearance. Thats the most development that I have seen during my stay at Dhule. People must be pretty pissed off with the quality of life out there. Lame road construction (if any), no malls, no place to hang out with friends, no good hotels, poor electricity supply, no town planning, no industrial center, no transport system, no nothing. It literally seems that the place has never emerged out of stone age.
And after all this, we hear a bunch of politically challenged body "Jai Maharashtra, Jai Hind."
I feel proud too ... but you cannot ignore the facts and figures. Look at it yourself. People out there need development too ... it's not even about "need" development, they deserve it, especially after your vote bank political statements that you give out in the election campaign.
It's high time now and drastic steps need to be taken to bring in some changes. Decentralization of authority and power needs to be done. When I say this, I mean that other parts of Maharashtra should not be ignored as if they are inhabited by animals and algae. And stop giving importance to these politically challenged parties trying to win elections chanting "Jai Maharashtra". Bunch of posers. Hypocrites.
Reality check.
Name me more than 5 cities in Maharashtra that you know.
Wait I'll help you out with it :
After Mumbai :
1. Pune
2. Nasik
3. Nagpur
4. Aurangabad
5. #########
What happened ?
Something missing here ?
Do you feel the picture is incomplete?
U ever been to Gujarat (by train)?
Prepare a similar list :
1. Valsad
2. Navsari
3. Surat
4. Bharuch
5. Vadodra
6. Anand
7. Ahmedabad
8. Gandhi nagar
9. Rajkot
10. Jamnagar
11. Surendranagar
12. Mehsana
13. Gandhidham
14. Porbander
This list can go on and on ... my point is that every station is industrially developed. They have Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation well established. Mumbai, because of this city, the focus has shifted in Maharashtra.
I have studied at a place in the interiors of Maharashtra (Khandesh - Malegaon, Dhule) aka North Maharashtra. I was at Dhule. This place was Jurassic Park for me. Lucky me I did not find any Dinosaurs. Probably because there wasn't a single museum in a 500 km radius. That place seems like the epicenter of the last Ice age. The place where people have no railway stations. Oh god ... No, I have mistaken. There is a railway station at Dhule. The only problem is that within a span of 24 hours of any given weekday, only a single train arrives at the place. The name of the train is Dadar- Amrutsar Express. No MIDC thats functional. It just has perfectly functional gates and a BSNL office .... wait thats fucking BSNL. So no reprise there too. No companies that employs engineers despite of having 6 engineering colleges and 3 medical colleges. Moreover the dirtty politicians are building other 3 engineering colleges for converting black to white (or green or gold). That place used to have 9 hours regular power cut off's in the month of April, May and June. Thats the period when the exams get conducted too ... no wonder I had so many KT's.
:P
The roads were laid when we heard the news that our PM Manmohan Singh was going to visit our engineering college. DDT sprinkled in the gutters, the walls repainted, the college gate (only the front visible portion) painted, the section of the building visible from road side repainted. Big tambura prepared for the PM speech. Alas PM had change of plans, and eventually he skipped the special appearance. Thats the most development that I have seen during my stay at Dhule. People must be pretty pissed off with the quality of life out there. Lame road construction (if any), no malls, no place to hang out with friends, no good hotels, poor electricity supply, no town planning, no industrial center, no transport system, no nothing. It literally seems that the place has never emerged out of stone age.
And after all this, we hear a bunch of politically challenged body "Jai Maharashtra, Jai Hind."
I feel proud too ... but you cannot ignore the facts and figures. Look at it yourself. People out there need development too ... it's not even about "need" development, they deserve it, especially after your vote bank political statements that you give out in the election campaign.
It's high time now and drastic steps need to be taken to bring in some changes. Decentralization of authority and power needs to be done. When I say this, I mean that other parts of Maharashtra should not be ignored as if they are inhabited by animals and algae. And stop giving importance to these politically challenged parties trying to win elections chanting "Jai Maharashtra". Bunch of posers. Hypocrites.
10 comments:
nice one...lot more needs to be written on the politic sof our country...
gud humor...
kp it up...!!!
:-)
good stuff......wish d responsible men read this
hey it was nice
keep it up
hey sir
its really good
btw u write technical stuffs as well :0
i mean ur other blogs
@ alex : Responsible men, isn't that like the Catch 22 ?
If we had responsible men, this day would have never been there !
awesome stuff man...stay in mumbai and this was the first time i was forced to think this way..amazing!
your piccccccccc is so like one of my old buddy.
*cries because of this new nostalgiac attack*
i think i should sue you [:p]
@ topic
i didnt get much of it but well, but oh god, 9 hrs power cut! (why, i should stop lamenting at current 5 here) and man! exams and load-shedding, very much commentable.
i can understand the biasness and all, I live in Islamabad, the capital here, and it is such a heavenly place i cant describe. Built in middle of mountains and all teh facilities. Pindi, another city is right next to isloo, infact Just A Main Road Away. and when you cross it, you come to real life of dirt/dust/disorder/unlawfullness/crime! One Road away!
I hope we change this, somewhat, somehow, somewhere! I hope we, do it soon. amen.
liked this post coz living in Mumbai, somehow i have come to believe that nothing exists beyond this lovely city......did not like this post coz i dont see much use of it except for making readers uncomfortably aware of a really unfair world.........
lovely insight. good u compared mumbai to other maharashtrian cities. these idiotic parochial; parties dont see that mumbai is what it is becoz of the investment and hardwork of so called "outsiders" and not becoz of just the marathi manoos.
nice post
lovely insight. good u compared mumbai to other maharashtrian cities. these idiotic parochial; parties dont see that mumbai is what it is becoz of the investment and hardwork of so called "outsiders" and not becoz of just the marathi manoos.
nice post
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