Do we have an option of going to
Supreme court (read a book in my
childhood called Winslow Boy)? Also
was wondering reasons cited by High
Court on this? - Naveen Kumar
Sharma - Oct. 25, 2006
Let's set our house in order back in
Bihar with the help of
non-pseudo-Bihari intellectuals. An
invisible strength could only be
derived once Bihar stands on her own
feet in the area of education,
infrastructure and food. Only
developed Bihar can compel the birds
of other states stop chirping and
comparing about garbage and Biharis.
Till then let's reduce the
brightness of our eyes outside Bihar
for the sake of self enhancement. A
dream day will come when we shall be
taking dip on the bank of river
Hudson (?) in New York celebrating
CHHATH. Forget about Juhu beach in
Mumbai !!!!!! Arre bhai, Justice and
Grudge are complementary to poor and
Bihari across India!!!, so a few
judges have the same while
delivering judgment. And so the
political leaders of India, and more
so the large number of spineless
bureaucrats and technocrats from
Bihar who join the chorus of bashing
all the time......
laughing..hee..hee.... It could only
be stopped if Bihar gets developed.
- Sudhir Ranjan - Oct. 26, 2006
There is no doubt that there is an
attempt to undermine Sanjay Nirupam
who was the main force behind the
Chhath festivities in Mumbai. Shiv
Sena naturally would not want it to
be celebrated now. And congressmen
would not want Sanjay Nirupam to
have any stature of his own.
Sadly, this has been the story of
Bihar / Bihar related things all
around - things start to slip due to
politics and as always, the natural
side for Congress is the anti Bihari
side. And the men behind the popular
sentiments, being Congressmen
(Sanjay Nirupam) and now also
Congress sympathisers (Lalu in this
instance), would keep quiet.
Why cant Congress and Shiv Sena find
another guy to organise Chhath? Why
punish an entire state when you want
to undermine one politician? How is
Durga puja allowed? How is Christmas
and Eid allowed?
Surely, this cycle has to break. A
people and a culture cant be held
hostage like this forever.
But there is hope. I read in TOI
that Chhath would be allowed at Juhu
if it is held as a non political
event. The collector (funny the
officer is called Collector even in
a metro like Mumbai) had disallowed
it, but high court has allowed it
with the non political caveat.
We would have to wait and see. -
Thakur Vikas Sinha, Powai, Mumbai -
Oct. 26, 2006
Who
is talking about cleanliness?? The
entire western corridor of India is
rotten. It is the zone where
capitalism rules in its dirtiest
form. The laborers who come from far
off places like Bihar and U.P. are
compelled to do all sorts of jobs in
the most inhuman conditions. This
time they are even deprived of
performing their rituals because
they may unclean their hallow
shores. But, why are we forgetting
that this is the state of
Maharashtra where three farmers
commit suicide everyday. According
to the September 2006 issue of
frontline "There have been 728
suicides from August 1, 2005, to
August 20, 2006, in Vidarbha (the
north-eastern region in Maharashtra,
comprising 11 districts) alone. The
number since 2001 is 2,279". While
the government there is busy filling
its pocket, the ultra modern elite
class of Bombay can't afford to get
disturbed while they jog along the
shores of Juhu even for a day. Well,
considering the facts, an action
like this is very much expected from
a state which has no sentiments even
for its very own people. Sometimes,
I feel that if the value system, in
some way, is an indicator of the
development of a society, we are far
more developed than any other state
in India on that ground. - Gunjan
Arya, Gaya
- Oct. 27, 2006
Actually the anti-Bihari bias has
political roots! It is not as if the
entire state of Maharashtra is
anti-Bihari. Political developments
in Bihar have had a profound social
impact elsewhere in the country. The
media may not reflect this, since
the media largely caters to the
educated urban elite and certain
vested interests. Traveling through
a rural part of Sattara in the
Western Ghats, I would talk to
farmers and peasants, and they would
show an intense interest in
political developments in Bihar and
the significant shift in the
political landscape of the state. I
have similarly found a keen interest
shown by people in Andhra, Tamil
Nadu Kerala and the North East. I
would repeat I am referring to the
rural population or the
disadvantaged, not the urban elite.
The ban on Chhath and the famous
"kill a Bihari" slogan during the
Railway Recruitment controversy in
2003 are not so much anti-Bihari in
themselves as a manifestation of the
fear by certain vested interests of
a political "infection".
Bihar today is a symbol of a very
significant experiment in which an
attempt is being made to bring all
sections of the population on an
equal level and promote harmony. The
experiment is underway and the
objectives though yet un-realised in
full, do appear to be achievable. If
Bihar succeeds, the effects
elsewhere would be profound. -
Reza Sami
- Oct. 27, 2006
I write this as I watch the
multitude of people milling at Juhu
Chowpati for the evening araghya of
Chhath in Sahara Mumbai. Sanjay
Nirupam announces proudly that
people have to return for the Chhath
celebrations next year too as we
would not let anything come in the
celebration of this festival of
faith. And I also see Priyanka
Chopra expressing her happiness for
being able to make it to the
festivities and proudly announcing
that she is half a Bihari.
All goes to prove that it is not
just enough to be in the right, you
also need to have the gumption to
stand for what you believe in. And
the world fall in line.
Wow! The sub altern Bihar so far
suppressed is on the rise and nobody
can stop it now. - Thakur Vikas
Sinha, Powai, Mumbai
- Oct. 29, 2006
It is nice to hear that Chhath puja
is observed in Juhu beach finally. I
salute Mr. Sanjay Nirupam, who led
this affair successfully and is
doing his bits for the Bihari pride
upsurge. "Roshan kar khuda ko ho
manjur to aandhiyon mein bhi chiraag
jalate hain".
Thakur Vikas Sinha is absolutely
right by saying Bihar is on rise.
Most of the TV news channels were
showing live telecast of Chhath
puja, which was not happening couple
of years before. One of my brothers
has celebrated Chhath in Jammu Cantt.
His family was the only doing this,
but by seeing their initiative,
couple of other Bihari families
joined them and were singing
bhojpuri folk songs on the bank of a
tiny stream. By listening the songs
and by seeing the small crowd, the
folks of other communities (mostly
South Indians) joined them. I
thanked a lot to my brother for
performing our own rituals with
great pride. - Tarakeswar Dubey -
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