tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post6813076262620694758..comments2024-03-19T09:03:49.770+05:30Comments on Shobhaa De: Cry, My Beloved City....Shobhaa Dehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05610708004901279105noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-53633261208188584532013-12-13T17:57:36.420+05:302013-12-13T17:57:36.420+05:30NICE Article
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TheroyalpokeNICE Article<br /><a href="http://www.TechTantrik.com" rel="nofollow">TechTantrik</a><br /><a href="http://www.TheRoyalPoke.com" rel="nofollow">Theroyalpoke</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-52393404788116292872013-09-22T16:48:24.900+05:302013-09-22T16:48:24.900+05:30This is in reference to your article, The Forbidde...This is in reference to your article, The Forbidden City in India Today dated 19th August, 2013.<br /><br />In this context I wish to share with you a slice of my family history.<br /><br />We are originally from Ahmedabad. My ancestors together with our community members stayed in what is today the old city of Ahmedabad. In the second half of the 18th century, the Maratha forces overran much of Gujarat. The crumbling Mughal Empire was not able to resist them and soon Ahmedabad was in their control.<br /><br />The Mughals were religious bigots but they understood the importance of administration and valued trade and entrepreneurship. Traders were not unduly harassed and trade was generally encouraged. The cess / taxes generated by trade made a sizable contribution to the Mughal coffers.<br /><br />The Maratha conquerors who were now in control of the city came from a rural background. They neither realized the importance of administration nor the significance of trade. Having got hold of Ahmedabad they set about enriching themselves with the wealth of the city. Corruption and extortion were the order of the day. To add to this cup of misery was the internecine rivalry between the forces of the Gaikwad, loyal to the Peshwa in Pune and Raghunathrao Peshwe, claimant to the title of Peshwa.<br /><br />The result of all this was that within a short span of time the city was laid to waste. Trade suffered and businessmen migrated to safer and more conducive trade centers. My ancestors too migrated to Surat, which thanks to the British was safe, better administered and business friendly. Subsequently, with the rise of Bombay as the commercial capital eclipsing Surat, and a stable British administration in place the next generation of my family moved once again, to Bombay.<br /><br />Nearly two centuries later it seems Mumbai has met the same fate as Ahmedabad. Sadly there seems to be no redemption in sight. The fortunes of Ahmedabad improved once the British gained control of the city subsequent to the third Anglo Maratha war in year 1818. Will Mumbai, developed by the British from nothing but a cache of fishing villages and paddy fields ever get its redeemer?Capt Haddockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14194718505625119637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3452007250221117551.post-69571579032368881462013-08-30T15:36:04.788+05:302013-08-30T15:36:04.788+05:30http://learnhealthcaring.blogspot.in/
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Yo...Well said, Shobhaa! I am in our city - Mumbai.<br /><br />You hit the corruption bit on the head.<br /><br />Today, I had hired a car from a travel agent in Nariman Point for a whole day.<br /><br />Mumbai mein bahut chor log hain saahab. Is liye ... mujhko 2000 rupiye advance mein chaahiye. main pachchees saalon se kaam kartaa hoon. kisee ko dhokaa naheen diyaa!<br /><br />I immediately knew I would be taken for a ride and played along.<br /><br />The car stopped for under one hour each in 3 places. Fraudulent parking tickets were issued without the name of the spot and time. In one ticket, the fee was clear enough to say Rs.20 for one hour and the parking attendant and the driver conspired to make it Rs.40 by hand. When I confronted the driver, he said, aap ko action leynaa hai to leejiye naa. yeh paarking waley chor hee to hain. <br /><br />I told the driver who revealed his name as Santosh Babujee Gaekwad that I would get an FIR registered to check the handwriting on the parking tickets by experts. Arre saahab chod doa naa... becharey gareeb log hain, went the refrain. And when I had told him that he needed to return Rs.100 to me, the guy began the charade of calculating in a busy thoroughfare. So I told him, he was as bad as the rest of the cheats and went to my friend's flat. The point is that the driver and the parking contractors brazenly cheat those who use the facilities in this city with fraudulent, forged documents. Would I get justice if I register an FIR?<br /><br />With 35 years' crime reporting under my belt, the answer is a resounding NO!<br /><br />The potholes all the way from Regal to Tardeo to Mumbai Central to Sion to Kurla and back to Colaba were appalling. I know for a fact ... some Rs.31 have been paid per sq ft. The stretches totaled 78 km long and some 100 feet wide. As I got off, a friendly inspector of roads estimated some Rs.6 per sq ft may have been spent and thus some Rs.25 per sq ft disappeared into corrupt pockets. I did a quick calculation and was shocked as the figures of the loot ran into five figure crores. <br /><br />And someone was saying some Rs.800 crores would be spent to repair the roads before August 25 2013! All of us know where the money would disappear, don't we?<br /><br />How else would some political party pay for the paid crowds outside your home to protest against your un-Maharashtrian diatribe, Shobhaa! Come on, have a heart!<br /><br />Meanwhile, readers can take heart in this: I wrote 2 angry blogs lambasting the fascists of Mumbai. Someone as ordinary as me got this kind of readership in Blogger: India<br />54<br />United Kingdom<br />29<br />United States<br />17<br />Australia<br />3<br />Ireland<br />2<br />Russia<br />2<br />United Arab Emirates<br />1<br />South Korea<br />1<br />Malaysia<br />1<br />Poland<br />1<br /><br />And everyone and anyone is free to guess what someone as famous as Shobhaa would have got! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com