You have hit the hammer on the nail. It is really irritating the way the self proclaimed ”saviour” of Maharashtra- Raj Thakre and his goonda army of MNS is behaving. I think entire Bollywood should put the foot down and show solidarity towards the Bachhans.

@Reshmi agree with you, the faternity has in fact come out in support, but what about the general public and the law and order keepers?

At first I want to ask the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena ( MNS) why do they allow production of Hindi movies in Mumbai or even in any place of the state if they are against of Hindi? The simple reason is money. Than why do they attack violently all the Hindi speaking people? Respecting Marathi is ok/good, but attacking every other language inside the state is too meaningless. rather it is going to harm the state itself.

@Sasmita precisely. There was a time when Calcutta was very happening in terms of economy and business...but look at it now. Mindless violence like this needs to be curbed immediately, we need to learn form other people’s/ states mistakes.

opposition is not for sake of using hindi, but in way jaya bachaan tried to intimidate maharashtrians. film industry may be paying taxes; but it should be remembered marathi r largest non-hindi speaking audiences to stupid bollywood films.

anyway, this matter is much deep rooted than movies or films. its clash of cultures with harmless maharashtrians on one side and agressive, lawless, terrorist breeding biharis and bhaiyyas on other.

Biharis are as cultured, peaceful and nationalists as Marathis. They are generally poor, sufferers due to natural and man made calamities, victims of bad governance and work their way up. They may or may not be welcome but they have every right to live any where in India, and work and enjoy all rights as a free Indian. Marathi regionalism does not subjugate Indian nationalism. Marathi is not superior to the official language of India.

Prejudiced minds can never decide when passions flare up. Those threatening are law breakers. Government’s inaction is due to petty politics. Rise and fall of Shiv Sena or MNS is for finding their own political space. If Marathi sensibilities are getting hurt on these small issues there is something wrong with the people whose sensibilities have become so sensitive that it can’t allow another person his legal rights in free India.

Smita Thackeray produced Hindi movies. MNS has no control over production of filmsn because film production is the product of a creative team; MNS is a destructive team. MNS wants to position itself as Marathi youth’s saviour for political gains. Please remember, it is a political party, not a social organisation. Those who fled away come away after some time. Those who remain pay protection money and survive. It is a vicious circle.

Vice President of MNS is a UP ka Bhaiyya. Raj Thackeray’s lawyers are Bihari and Bhaiyyas.

Bollywood does not have the courage to cry leave alone the guts to defy.

india didn’t see a single marathi PM in 60 yrs isnt mere coincidence. on individual levels biharis, bhayas may be civlised like maharashtrians...but then why law and order never prevails in their states? why r bhagalpurs only in bihar and nowhere else....its very natural fear of maharashtrians that if their number furthur increases over here they wud transform our cities in bhagalpurs!

No one can walk free at night in Gadchiroli.

if no Maharashtrian became PM, it is not Bihari’s fault. pratibha Patil is our President, is it because of Biharis alone?

It appears to me that Shri Siddhesh is skirting the main issue. Biharis and Bhayyas were there in Mumbai and Maharashtra before Bal Thackeray or Raj Thackeray came on the scene; and will remain even after they leave this earth. There number has increased dramatically due to employment opportunities available in Maharashtra. But so has been the influx from Karnataka, Andhra, Tamilnadu and Kerala apart from Kashmir, Punjab, Uttaranchal and Haryana. There are many factors responsible for it. Biharis and Bhayyas are the whipping boy today. yesterday it was South Indians. have you forgotten the Shiv Sena slogan of yesteryears : Lungi Uthao, Pungi Bajao.

Nishi,
Good post!

One should not forget after all its Amitabh Bachchan’s family and SRK who perform for all fund raising programs in Maharashtra!

While politicising and whipping up sentiments some leaders don’t know which issue to pick up and where to draw a line...

In this globalised world, where populations have to migrate, its futile to raise such religionalistic issues...instead they should demand better education for all people of the state to be able to compete in job markets..its poor quality leaders who are ruining our country and its peace!

Siddhesh, the reason India did not have a single Marathi prime minister is simple.

No Marathi leader who had the stuff in him to be a pan-Indian leader came up. Marathis spawned only narrow minded, divisive, and rabid leaders in the last 60 years.

That way Marathis have made losers out of themselves. Most Marathis are stupid people. They simply don't have the brains or the guts that makes a Bihari a Bihari.

helloo....what’s exact meaning of ’stupid’?? and if others had guts why is India lagging behind?? 9 centuries of Islamic rule and then 2 centuries of British rule have sucked out ethics of masses in Ganges belt....that’s why u rule in delhi and continue ruining india...its nowhere shortage of guts...what r marathi guts ask ur granny few stories of Shivaji, if she knows, however, lol!!!

Maharashtra did not have Mughal rule or British rule? Did the rulers differentiate between Marathis and non Marathis?

In Agra, Shivaji is a jail breaker, at Surat he is a plunderer (lootera). In Maharashtra he is demi-god.

@ Mr. Ramesh, kudos for the clarity of your comments which are bereft of emotional outbursts, but are rational and proper. I don’t know how many people think like Siddhesh or Gaurav, but it is really sad to see people being openly biased augmenting regional sentiments.Not all Biharis are lawless, aggressive and terrorists...just like not all Marathis are docile, good natured and friendly.

It is my country, my motherland, my nation, my people; in that order once and always. I am trying to put things in proper focus for you all to judge.

Even if all Biharis are law breakers, it does not give any right to any one else to stop him from speaking his language and residing freely in the country. My motherland India gives me the right to live legally and lawfully. It also gives me rights to commit crimes and get punished through due process of law.

jail break, plunder Shivaji did because he had guts and hence was his coronation.

Marathi Brahmins refused to coronate Shivaji as Chatrapati because he was an OBC. A Bhaiyya Brahmin from Benares was called for the purpose. The Darbari poet of Shivaji was not a Marathi but an UP Ka Bhaiyya called Bhushan. Revise your history, brother. If you emulate even a fraction of a percentage of the thoughts and vision of Shivaji, you will not have myopic regional tendencies.

Ramesh Balam

Good post!

I Thank you for giving your thoughts.

Dear All,

Let us all support Raj Thackeray and THEKEDAR of Marathi to take his initiative ahead by doing more…

1. We should teach our kids that if he is second in class, don’t study harder.. just beat up the student coming first and throw him out of the school

2. Parliament should have only Delhiites as it is located in delhi

3. Prime-minister, president and all other leaders should only be from Delhi

4. No Hindi movie should be made in Bombay. Only Marathi.

5. At every state border, buses, trains, flights should be stopped and staff changed to local men

6. All Maharashtrians working abroad or in other states should be sent back as they are SNATCHING employment from Locals

7. Lord Shiv, Ganesha and Parvati should not be worshiped in our state as they belong to north (Himalayas)

8. Visits to Taj Mahal should be restricted to people from UP only

9. Relief for farmers in Maharashtra should not come from centre because that is the money collected as Tax from whole of India, so why should it be given to

someone in Maharashtra?

10. Let’s support Kashmiri Militants because they are right in killing and injuring innocent people for the benefit of their state and community..

11. Let’s throw all MNCs out of Maharashtra, why should they earn from us? We will open our own Maharashtra Microsoft, MH Pepsi and MH Marutis of the world

12. Let’s stop using cellphones, emails, TV, foreign Movies and dramas. James Bond should speak Marathi

13. We should be ready to die hungry or buy food at 10 times higher price but should not accept imports from other states

14. We should not allow any industry to be setup in Maharashtra because all machinery comes from outside

15. We should STOP using local trains… Trains are not manufactured by Marathi manoos and Railway Minister is a Bangali

16. Ensure that all our children are born, grow, live and die without ever stepping out of Maharasthra, then they will become true Marathis

If you feel proud to be a marathi
Know some facts before you comment on others

1 Maharashtra Performing Worse Than Other States? A Comparive Study of Public Finances of Indian States

http://ideas.repec.org/p/ess/wpaper/id105.html

2 Maharashtra among states worst affected by communal violence: Home Ministry

Maharashtra — which have been ruled by ‘secular’ political parties for the last four years — were among the worst affected by communal violence during that period. While Maharashtra — which as recently as this Monday was shaken a bomb blast in Malegaon and a communal riot over a Navratri pandal in Thane — has witnessed 637 incidents of communal violence since 2004, about one-fifth of the total in the entire country, Uttar Pradesh accounted for the maximum number of deaths — 176 — in communal clashes in the last four years.

Not surprisingly, therefore, a recent assessment report by Home Minister Shivraj Patil, while expressing satisfaction over the declining trend in casualties, admitted that the communal situation in the country “remains fragile”.

“Even though there have not been any major riots, as such, in recent times, the communal situation remains fragile,” it said.

From 133 deaths in 2006, the figure dropped to 99 in 2007, but the number of incidents increased in the corresponding period. The first eight months of 2008 have already accounted for 83 lives without counting the dead in the recent round of attacks on Christians.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/maharashtra

3 In lawless Maharashtra

Welcome to this BJP-Shiv Sena-ruled State to find out all about law and order.

http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1514/15141240.htm

4 maharashtra-up-among-states-worst-affected-by-communal-violence-home-ministry


http://www.screenindia.com/news/maharashtra-up-among-states-worst-affected-by-communal-violence-home-ministry/368914/

5 FARMER SUICIDES
Maharashtra: The graveyard of farmers

The state has witnessed 30,000 farm suicides in a decade. Vidarbha is the worst place in the nation to be a farmer, writes P Sainath.

Nearly 29,000 farmers committed suicide in Maharashtra between 1997 and 2005, official data show. No other State comes close to that total. This means that of the roughly 1.5 lakh farmers who killed themselves across the country in that period, almost every fifth one was from Maharashtra - which saw a 105 per cent increase in farm suicides in those nine years. More than 19,000 of those farmer suicides occurred from 2001 onwards.

http://www.indiatogether.org/2007/nov/psa-mids3.htm


6 A Farmer is Committing Suicide Every 32 Minutes

www.alterinter.org/article1394.html

7 Women worst victims on Maharashtra crime graph

Only 11.5% charge sheeted molestation cases are convicted in Maharashtra

January 5, 2008 by CyberGandhi


NEW DELHI: The indifference of the Mumbai top cops to the ghastly case of molestation in upscale Juhu is entirely in keeping with the state police’s track record on crimes against women. For, when it comes to conviction rates of crimes against women, Maharashtra’s record is worse than almost all other states.

In cases of molestation, for instance, only 11.5 out of every 100 offenders charge sheeted, are convicted in Maharashtra, against the all-India average of 30.7%.

The only states with a lower conviction rate for molestation are Jammu & Kashmir with 11.2%, West Bengal’s with 11%, Gujarat with 6.9% and Karnataka with 6.2%.

Maharastra’s 10.1% conviction rate for cases of sexual harassment is the lowest among all states, if one excludes Goa and Arunachal Pradesh, which had very few cases of this crime.


http://escapefromindia.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/only-115-charge-sheeted-molestation-cases-are-convicted-in-maharashtra/


8 What is wrong with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena?

By stalling Bachchan starrers, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena ( MNS) is making the life of producers, distributors and exhibitors hell. I am sure a lot of these producers, distributors and exhibitors are Marathis, so are they by their disruptive and anti-social activities doing anything good for Maharashtra? Agree that in a democracy every person is entitled to his/her opinion but this is just goonda-raj of MNS.

Jaya Bachchan’s casual yet tactless remark (well, being a public persona one has to be so much more careful as to what one says especially in a public function) at the music launch function certainly did not warrant tearing down posters, issuing threats to the Bachchan family and blocking the premier of the award-wining movie The Last Lear in PVR Mumbai.

Mumbai is a prime territory for the Hindi film industry, not only does it bring prosperity to the actors but also to the entire state in the form of taxes and revenues. Bollywood can only flourish if Mumbai (a city, which has till date always welcomed people from every part of the world) remains incident free.

MNS I am sure does not voice the sentiments of aam-aadmi. Checks and balances should be put in place so that due to the whims of one political figure, the whole state should not suffer. Killing the golden-goose is not one of the most intelligent things to do, general public and rational-thinking people should get together see that Maharashtra does not go the Bengal way.


http://nishi.instablogs.com/entry/what-is-wrong-with-maharashtra-navnirman-sena/


9 Shobhaa De on Raj Thackeray, MNS and Maharashtra

Recently Shobhaa De made an appearance on Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate and had a few answers to questions from Karan about the MNS, Raj Thackeray, Mumbai vs Bombay etc etc. I did not catch the interview on TV, but came across the transcript on the Cnn-IBN website.

This article is critical of Shobhaa De. But that does mean that I am against Maharashtrians. If your brain is so small, you should not be on this site anyway. I personally believe that Maharashtrians’ economic status, jobs and culture - all are important issues under threat. And I would write about my suggestions for them too. But this is specific to the interview.

http://www.dancewithshadows.com/politics/shobhaa-de-on-raj-thackeray-mns-and-maharashtra/

10 what is wrong with maharastra?

from the page devoted to ’maharastra’ one gets a feeling that this state does not hold any thing of interest to the tourist. the complete forum on maharastra does not even spill over to the second page!!!!!!!!

from the page devoted to ’maharastra’ one gets a feeling that this state does not hold any thing of interest to the tourist. the complete forum on maharastra does not even spill over to the second page!!!!!!!!

http://www.indiamike.com/india/maharashtra-f37/what-is-wrong-with-maharastra-t14572/

Well said Dhanjit. If Mr Raj is so much concerned about the plight of Marathi manus then he should work for their upliftment and not engage them in the activities that create chaos in Maharashtra which badly affects their own business and life.

Everything!,they wants to destroy and not certain about making it again{NAV-Nirman}.