Showing posts with label Protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protest. Show all posts
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Ek Tha Tiger?... NO! 'Ekta Tiger'
Image Courtesy: Mumbai Mirror
This poster was seen during a Shiv Sena rally protesting against the 12 Aug CST riots. Interestingly the word 'Ekta' has 2 meanings in Marathi 'Only' and 'Lonely'... You decide which is more apt!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Raj Thackeray's MNS invites Mumbaikars for a March to protest CST Riots
3M is pleased to see that this letter by Raj Thackeray is bereft of any Anti-Muslim rhetoric... but strongly condemns Maharashtra Administration and Police chief for emasculating the Police force! Surprisingly, the original champion of Hindutva is doing nothing except writing fiery articles in Samanaa!
Today's Navakaal Newspaper mentions that the police force at large is unhappy about the way they have been treated and hence their family members are going to participate in the MNS morcha in a big way on 21st August 2012! The morcha (March) will start from Girgaon Choupati at 12 noon and will end at Azad Maidan. The Maharashtra administration is reluctant to give permission for this event as 'it may cause trouble in the city'!
The Video below clearly shows that Police Commissioner Arup Pattnaik is dissuading his juniors from taking action against the rioters!
Thursday, September 15, 2011
The Docomo Ad that irritated Raj Thackeray
Raj Thackeray has warned Ad makers/ Film makers/ Serial makers not to take 'Creative Liberty' when it comes to portraying Marathi Manoos... But 3M is even more disgusted with the stereotyping of servants as 'chor'!
Friday, August 26, 2011
Angry Anna
Now Anna Hazare has inspired an online game "Angry Anna" (similar to "Angry Birds")... with all the other characters thrown in!
Definition of Congress!
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a Gaggle of geese.
However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably, because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.
Now consider a gathering of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates.
And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not ....... a Congress!
I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of our present government led by a party by that name, which has ruled our country for most of the 64 years since the British left us in their hands!
Courtesy: www.IndiaCentral.in
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Anna Hazare's appeal grows
BharGo's Insight: Anna Hazare has emerged as the only Marathi leader (Artists or sports persons not included) since independence who has achieved a pan-India appeal... Only Lokmanya Tilak managed to do it a century ago!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Anna Hazare has been arrested
"जब गांधीगिरी से काम नहीं चलता... तो मै छत्रपति शिवाजी को याद करता हूँ!"
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Mr. Shiv Sainik Vs. 'Stupid Common Man'
I got this email below from a colleague…
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Dear Mr Shiv Sainik,
I trust you have read Rajdeep Sardesai’s open letter to Mr Uddhav Thakeray doing the rounds on the internet. Frankly, for two reasons I won’t be surprised if you haven’t. One, it is in English. And two, it is extremely well-written and very thought–provoking. If you haven’t read it I suggest you ask your children to translate it for you. Like the offspring of most Shiv Sainiks I presume yours too are studying in the most elitist of convent schools.
But first, let me introduce myself.
I am just a Stupid Common Man. Have you seen the film ‘A Wednesday’? You must, even though it is in Hindi. Nasiruddin Shah’s soliloquy at the end of the film where he spits out his pent-up anger against the system and all politicians will make your hair stand on end. He calls himself just a Stupid Common Man. That’s what I am too, as are the faceless thousands and thousands of us in this city. And like the Stupid Common Man, we are a very angry lot today; angry at your silly and immature antics, and angry at the city being held to ransom by your aging leader and his coterie of Yes Men.
I have tried to understand what your core values are, but I am stumped!
Let me spell out why.
Your agitation against Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Gandhi, Mukesh Ambani and Sachin Tendulkar turned out to be as riveting as a deflating balloon. Nobody paid heed to your leader’s call, least of all we Bombay /Manoos /who you have turned into a kind of experimental guinea pigs in the political laboratory. What kind of wishy-washy, spineless, sloppy fellows are you! Sorry, Mr Shiv Sainik, the nation did not want an apology from SRK – far from it. They just want good, edge-of-the-seat cricket. And the nation showed what they think of your fading leader by making SRK’s film the biggest grosser in Bollywood. What Rahul G gave you gentlemen was a resounding slap-in-the-face by doing what your leader has never done – Rahul mingled freely with the ordinary /manoos/ in Bombay. Sachin endeared himself to the whole country by proclaiming that he was an Indian first. As for Mukesh Ambani, please await the next chapter.
Now let me tell you why we are an angry lot. Your creaky gramophone record about Marathi pride being hurt has ceased to convince us any more. During your current tenure at the BMC, 35 Marathi municipal schools were shut down. Is this your idea of pride? Rahul Bose (I don’t think you gentlemen have even heard of him) in a recent TV interview gave statistics to show that Bombay has already lost out to Delhi in virtually every department of administration. Forget Delhi, it is losing out to Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. Is this your idea of pride?
And your flip-flop about allowing the Australians to play in Bombay has many of us in splits. If you are against immigrants, surely you should be supporting racism in Australia! And if you are protesting racism in Oz, does it mean that you have had a change of heart about the North Indians? Is this pride, or total Alzeimeric confusion? Yes, we are angry at your threats to paralyse Bombay at the drop of a sparrow’s droppings. And, more important, we are angry at your wanton destruction of public property. Your loss at successive elections is enough proof of the adage “You can fool some of the people all the time, or all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.”
Now let me tell you why some countries are great and the others are not. This will perhaps appeal to you, if you have progressed beyond high school. You have probably heard of a country called USA – it is the most powerful nation in the world today. It is so because of the way it allows the human potential to flower and flourish. Leaders – in politics and in business - in the US come from all parts of the world. If you ever were an avid newspaper reader (real newspapers, not the Saamna variety) you will recall that there was a man called Henry Kissinger. He was a German refugee from the Holocaust, and he became Secretary of State. That Mrs Indira Gandhi gave him a bloody nose during the ’71 war is another story. But let me give you an example that you would probably relate to better. You surely have seen Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films. He flexes his biceps and can put Salman K to shame – iconic and breath-taking stuff for your stone-throwing, public property-destroying foot-soldiers. He migrated from Austria about 40 years ago determined to make it big in the US. Arnold is presently Governor of California. And there are several Indians in Obama’s (he happens to be the President of the US) administration, including a few Marathi Manoos (No, Please, Al Gore is NOT a Marathi Manoos). And their contribution to American society and economy is just enormous.
The point I am making is simply this: you can throw out the ‘outsiders’ only at your economic peril. All along you have been talking only about job reservations. Have you ever given a thought to job creation? Have you ever wondered why very, very few Marathi Manoos make it to the IFS, IAS, IRS and the higher echelons of the armed forces? It’s now high time you gave a thought to that, AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
Now try to picture this. Bombay accounts for about 35% of the income tax collections of the country. This you probably know. What you probably do not know is that companies pay income tax in the city where their registered offices are situated. Now just imagine - and please try to do so seriously because we are not talking /kaanda bhajiya/ but real big mega stuff – what would happen if the big 3 suddenly decided to shift their registered offices to Baroda, or Bangalore, or Delhi? Do you recall the downfall of Calcutta when Charu Mazumdar and his naxalite thugs ran amok there? And the ruins of Uganda when Big Boy Idi Amin threw out the Indians? In economic terms it’s called flight of capital. The Tatas called Mamta didi’s bluff and shifted the Nano project lock, stock and barrel to Gujarat. That left Bengal gasping for breath. Mukesh Ambani is already talking of shifting his registered office to Jamnagar . . I leave the rest to your imagination.
And have you ever thought what would happen to Bombay if the film industry, what Bombay is really synonymous with, decided to move to Noida?
Sorry for being harsh on you, dear Mr SS, but I am just a Stupid Common Man letting off steam against your apathy, utter lack of vision and foresight, and utter lack of concern for us.
Now let’s see what you gentlemen CAN do. You are controlling the BMC for the moment. And I say for the moment because I see the Rahul G tsunami in the distant horizon fast approaching Matoshree. SO IT’S TIME YOU DID SOMETHING FOR BOMBAY! You have until 2012. Merely changing names of cities and roads and monuments, and creating an identity crisis for everybody, will not help. I’ve never heard you gentlemen talk of
·Urban planning
·eliminating corruption, especially in the BMC that you presently control,
·giving us good roads and footpaths,
·parks and gardens,
·upgraded municipal hospitals and schools,
·uninterrupted water and electricity
All that I’ve heard is the tinkling of shattered glass panes of the IBN
Lokmat office, cinema theatres and of bhaiyya-owned taxis.
And you gentlemen have woken up to the existence of Vidarbha only when they started demanding a separate state. It just boils down to plain neglect; so much for your oft-touted Marathi pride. This polemics has ensured your survival, but it has not taken you very far. You are fast approaching a dead-end. In fact, when the obituary of the Shiv Sena is written what will be remembered will not be the flyovers you built, but:
·Bashing up south Indians
·Bashing up north Indians
·Digging up cricket pitches
·Damaging the only world cup trophy brought in by Kapil’s Devils
·Enron-Dabhol scandal
·Michael Jackson fund-raiser and the funds that disappeared
·Miandad-Supremo camaraderie
·Flight of capital and business (Hope you read ET. There must be a Marathi version)
But there is hope for you yet. *Start talking economics* and you may just survive the Rahul Gandhi tsunami. But above all, please read Rajdeep’s mail. If you survive you will have Rajdeep Sardesai to thank.
Yours angrily,
Stupid Common Man
I trust you have read Rajdeep Sardesai’s open letter to Mr Uddhav Thakeray doing the rounds on the internet. Frankly, for two reasons I won’t be surprised if you haven’t. One, it is in English. And two, it is extremely well-written and very thought–provoking. If you haven’t read it I suggest you ask your children to translate it for you. Like the offspring of most Shiv Sainiks I presume yours too are studying in the most elitist of convent schools.
But first, let me introduce myself.
I am just a Stupid Common Man. Have you seen the film ‘A Wednesday’? You must, even though it is in Hindi. Nasiruddin Shah’s soliloquy at the end of the film where he spits out his pent-up anger against the system and all politicians will make your hair stand on end. He calls himself just a Stupid Common Man. That’s what I am too, as are the faceless thousands and thousands of us in this city. And like the Stupid Common Man, we are a very angry lot today; angry at your silly and immature antics, and angry at the city being held to ransom by your aging leader and his coterie of Yes Men.I have tried to understand what your core values are, but I am stumped!
Let me spell out why.
Your agitation against Shah Rukh Khan, Rahul Gandhi, Mukesh Ambani and Sachin Tendulkar turned out to be as riveting as a deflating balloon. Nobody paid heed to your leader’s call, least of all we Bombay /Manoos /who you have turned into a kind of experimental guinea pigs in the political laboratory. What kind of wishy-washy, spineless, sloppy fellows are you! Sorry, Mr Shiv Sainik, the nation did not want an apology from SRK – far from it. They just want good, edge-of-the-seat cricket. And the nation showed what they think of your fading leader by making SRK’s film the biggest grosser in Bollywood. What Rahul G gave you gentlemen was a resounding slap-in-the-face by doing what your leader has never done – Rahul mingled freely with the ordinary /manoos/ in Bombay. Sachin endeared himself to the whole country by proclaiming that he was an Indian first. As for Mukesh Ambani, please await the next chapter.
Now let me tell you why we are an angry lot. Your creaky gramophone record about Marathi pride being hurt has ceased to convince us any more. During your current tenure at the BMC, 35 Marathi municipal schools were shut down. Is this your idea of pride? Rahul Bose (I don’t think you gentlemen have even heard of him) in a recent TV interview gave statistics to show that Bombay has already lost out to Delhi in virtually every department of administration. Forget Delhi, it is losing out to Ahmedabad and Hyderabad. Is this your idea of pride?
And your flip-flop about allowing the Australians to play in Bombay has many of us in splits. If you are against immigrants, surely you should be supporting racism in Australia! And if you are protesting racism in Oz, does it mean that you have had a change of heart about the North Indians? Is this pride, or total Alzeimeric confusion? Yes, we are angry at your threats to paralyse Bombay at the drop of a sparrow’s droppings. And, more important, we are angry at your wanton destruction of public property. Your loss at successive elections is enough proof of the adage “You can fool some of the people all the time, or all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.”
Now let me tell you why some countries are great and the others are not. This will perhaps appeal to you, if you have progressed beyond high school. You have probably heard of a country called USA – it is the most powerful nation in the world today. It is so because of the way it allows the human potential to flower and flourish. Leaders – in politics and in business - in the US come from all parts of the world. If you ever were an avid newspaper reader (real newspapers, not the Saamna variety) you will recall that there was a man called Henry Kissinger. He was a German refugee from the Holocaust, and he became Secretary of State. That Mrs Indira Gandhi gave him a bloody nose during the ’71 war is another story. But let me give you an example that you would probably relate to better. You surely have seen Arnold Schwarzenegger’s films. He flexes his biceps and can put Salman K to shame – iconic and breath-taking stuff for your stone-throwing, public property-destroying foot-soldiers. He migrated from Austria about 40 years ago determined to make it big in the US. Arnold is presently Governor of California. And there are several Indians in Obama’s (he happens to be the President of the US) administration, including a few Marathi Manoos (No, Please, Al Gore is NOT a Marathi Manoos). And their contribution to American society and economy is just enormous.
The point I am making is simply this: you can throw out the ‘outsiders’ only at your economic peril. All along you have been talking only about job reservations. Have you ever given a thought to job creation? Have you ever wondered why very, very few Marathi Manoos make it to the IFS, IAS, IRS and the higher echelons of the armed forces? It’s now high time you gave a thought to that, AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!
Now try to picture this. Bombay accounts for about 35% of the income tax collections of the country. This you probably know. What you probably do not know is that companies pay income tax in the city where their registered offices are situated. Now just imagine - and please try to do so seriously because we are not talking /kaanda bhajiya/ but real big mega stuff – what would happen if the big 3 suddenly decided to shift their registered offices to Baroda, or Bangalore, or Delhi? Do you recall the downfall of Calcutta when Charu Mazumdar and his naxalite thugs ran amok there? And the ruins of Uganda when Big Boy Idi Amin threw out the Indians? In economic terms it’s called flight of capital. The Tatas called Mamta didi’s bluff and shifted the Nano project lock, stock and barrel to Gujarat. That left Bengal gasping for breath. Mukesh Ambani is already talking of shifting his registered office to Jamnagar . . I leave the rest to your imagination.
And have you ever thought what would happen to Bombay if the film industry, what Bombay is really synonymous with, decided to move to Noida?
Sorry for being harsh on you, dear Mr SS, but I am just a Stupid Common Man letting off steam against your apathy, utter lack of vision and foresight, and utter lack of concern for us.
Now let’s see what you gentlemen CAN do. You are controlling the BMC for the moment. And I say for the moment because I see the Rahul G tsunami in the distant horizon fast approaching Matoshree. SO IT’S TIME YOU DID SOMETHING FOR BOMBAY! You have until 2012. Merely changing names of cities and roads and monuments, and creating an identity crisis for everybody, will not help. I’ve never heard you gentlemen talk of
·Urban planning
·eliminating corruption, especially in the BMC that you presently control,
·giving us good roads and footpaths,
·parks and gardens,
·upgraded municipal hospitals and schools,
·uninterrupted water and electricity
All that I’ve heard is the tinkling of shattered glass panes of the IBN
Lokmat office, cinema theatres and of bhaiyya-owned taxis.
And you gentlemen have woken up to the existence of Vidarbha only when they started demanding a separate state. It just boils down to plain neglect; so much for your oft-touted Marathi pride. This polemics has ensured your survival, but it has not taken you very far. You are fast approaching a dead-end. In fact, when the obituary of the Shiv Sena is written what will be remembered will not be the flyovers you built, but:
·Bashing up south Indians
·Bashing up north Indians
·Digging up cricket pitches
·Damaging the only world cup trophy brought in by Kapil’s Devils
·Enron-Dabhol scandal
·Michael Jackson fund-raiser and the funds that disappeared
·Miandad-Supremo camaraderie
·Flight of capital and business (Hope you read ET. There must be a Marathi version)
But there is hope for you yet. *Start talking economics* and you may just survive the Rahul Gandhi tsunami. But above all, please read Rajdeep’s mail. If you survive you will have Rajdeep Sardesai to thank.
Yours angrily,
Stupid Common Man
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Miraj Riots
A small incident has snowballed into a big riot… but what really amused 3M is that the Police decided to 'enforce visarjan' on the protesting Mandals... will this give the SS-BJP Yuti a fillip in the region totally dominated by the NCP-Cong Aghadi?
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Bombay High Court can’t comprehend Marathi!
Vinayak Kulkarni was in for a shock when his appeal was rejected because it did not have an English translation attached to it! Why does a court in Maharashtra not accept pleas in local language? Do poor locals have to spend money on getting their pleas translated in English? This happens only in Maharashtra…
3M presumes because it is ‘Bombay’ High Court… not ‘Mumbai’ High Court!
3M presumes because it is ‘Bombay’ High Court… not ‘Mumbai’ High Court!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
कोळसा नको रे बाबा!
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With help from Greenpeace, the villagers of Poynad (Near Alibag) and surrounding areas have started protesting against a coal based power project… what they are asking for is clean and green wind based power. BTW the banner seems to be for media... as most locals cant read English!
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Now Marathi producers will shun multiplexes
As Multiplex owners and Hindi film producers slugged it out, Marathi films had a free run… especially ‘Mee Shivajiraje Bhonsale Boltoy’. But now that this Tashan has come to an end, Marathi films producers have decided to boycott multiplexes.
3M wonders if Marathi movies don’t run in Multiplexes and single screen theatres don’t want to show them… Marathi Manoos will have to stick to Zee Marathi & Star Pravah!
3M wonders if Marathi movies don’t run in Multiplexes and single screen theatres don’t want to show them… Marathi Manoos will have to stick to Zee Marathi & Star Pravah!
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Save Savita Bhabhi!
Since the ‘Marathmoli Savita Bhabhi’ Post was published, it has become the most googled page on my blog… Now as many Internet Service Providers try to block this website, Savita Bhabhi’s fans have started the ‘Save Savita’ Campaign!
3M wonders if the readers of this blog will follow suit…
3M wonders if the readers of this blog will follow suit…
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Ranichi Baug is dying…
When 3M visited the newly restored Bhau Daji Lad Museum at Bhaikhala (Byculla for the Anglophiles) a year ago, he made a quick dash to the ‘Ranichi Baug’, our beloved zoo… the state of affairs in there was woeful to say the least.
3M’s worst fears turned into a reality when last week a hippopotamus died due to negligence… How many more innocent animals will be sacrificed at BMC’s ‘Altar of Mismanagement’? Can’t we have a public-private partnership like the one that restored the museum to nurse the zoo back to good health?
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Shiv Sena attacks Waghmare for defending Kasab
Maharashtra Government gave the onerous task of defending Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/11 attacks, to Anjali Waghmare. Like the previous two lawyers who were given this responsibility, her house was also attacked by Shiv Sainiks last night… Knowing the past incidents, it is surprising that she was not provided with police protection in the first place!
3M wants to know if Shiv Sainiks were miffed with the fact that her surname is Waghmare – literally “Tiger Slayer”?
Friday, March 13, 2009
Muslims are unhappy with Vilasrao
Former Maharashtra CM, Vilasrao Deshmukh had to face the ire of representatives of the Muslim community at a function held at Islam Gymkhana in Mumbai… reasons for disgruntlement included delay in forming ‘minority department’ to welfare schemes.
3M is amused to know that Vilasrao plans to contest Lok Sabha elections from Aurangabad… where the percentage of Muslim votes is one of the highest in Maharashtra!
3M is amused to know that Vilasrao plans to contest Lok Sabha elections from Aurangabad… where the percentage of Muslim votes is one of the highest in Maharashtra!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Medha Patkar tells ‘Slumdogs’ to slam politicos
Medha Patkar, the firebrand activist was in Mumbai to advice slum dwellers that they should not vote for parties which have used Slum Rehabilitation Programs to help the builder lobby
3M would like to know from Medhatai as to who should they vote for? The only major force in Maharashtra that has not 'tasted power' is MNS... but you have slammed them too!
3M would like to know from Medhatai as to who should they vote for? The only major force in Maharashtra that has not 'tasted power' is MNS... but you have slammed them too!
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