Dedications

The recent melee around the movie ‘My Name is Khan’ only goes to prove that the Shiv Sena whose mascot is a Tiger is losing its teeth, stripes, balls, and all other part of its anatomy that can prove that it’s a Tiger. Looks like anything associated with a tiger is jinxed as Tiger Woods ended up proving he to be an animal, and this animal can’t prove to be one. It’s take a lot to be a Tiger.

Bal Thackrey is a man I love and admire, as no politician worth their salt, have the gall to speak their mind. Yes his ideology is twisted, weird and many a times insane. His claim to be the protector of the Marathi people has been a load of gas. He has got himself so confused that in the process masses who he had kept in a state of confusion for decades have awoken. First it was South Indians that were his target, then Muslims, then people from UP, then it was his Hindutva stance, where it boomeranged as people from UP or South India can also be Hindus. Then it was his tirade against Valentine’s Day. Finally when everything failed to keep his roar alive, which started sounding like the mew of a lost kitten he started to attack the softest target in the country that is the film industry. The entire approach of the Sena has been that of a political terrorist. Terrorise anyone who does not agree to their political ideology. Vandalism and putting the public at large to inconvenience has been their only achievement.

His own blood pulled the rug of his feet, I mean paws. That’s beside the point Raj Thackrey who could have rocked, got it cocked following the paw steps of the tiger. In the process got the Marathi people even more confused, as it was earlier just one party or family giving them a carrot on a stick, now it two parts of the same family, this time giving them only a stick, as they have not even left the carrot they used to dangle earlier. The whole trip of Maharashtra for Maharastrians is so skewed up, as no one knows what defines one to be a Maharashtrian. One opinion is you have to be domiciled in the state for 15 years, so if you are born in Maharashtra and have not lived there it disqualifies you, but if you are from UP and lived there for 15 years qualifies you. Then the Sena’s opinion is that you have to know the language to be a Maharastrian, which makes Ajmal Kasab the terrorist, a Maharastrian as he has already started giving his replies in Marathi in the court. Then another view is you have to born to Maharashtrian parents, which means if a set of parents were Maharastrians and migrated to Pakistan during the partition, it qualifies their children to be Maharastrian. The list goes on and every opinion contradicts the other, and as usual confuses more. I won’t be surprised if another opinion may soon be enforced that you have to prove your origins right upto Darwin’s theory from which brood of monkeys you originated to prove your Maharastrian monkey origins.

No problems with all this confusion they can go ahead and make it murkier, but why vandalise, terrorise and physically hurt people to drive your ideology. Beating up innocent taxi drivers whose origins are from UP. Vandalise cinema halls to ban a movie of Shahrukh Khan because he said something that is pro Pakistan. If what he said is wrong, deal with him why should the common suffer and fear for his life. If you can’t debate with him don’t terrorize, as Mr. Thackrey ‘Your name is not Khan but are you a terrorist?"

# posted by Sunny Fernandes @ 2:54 AM