Lets call Mumbai as Bombay

Recent events of MNS activists stopping screening of a movie for just referring the city with its old name Bombay. Then the movie producer Karan Johar marching to MNS boss’s house to apologize for the “mistake” and accepting to show a apology slide at the beginning of the movie. So the issue looks resolved for now. But still I am wondering whose city is this anyway, not sure if someone gave all the rights to MNS on the city and the people live there. This issue of local goons forming political parties and holding governments ransom by triggering region/religion sentiments has reached unacceptable levels, there should be a stop for all this . At least first media should stop telecasting their “heroics” and stop taking the goon’s interviews. Take the example of so called national news channels lining up outside Raj Thakary’s house for an interview, just before state polls. Its disgusting that the people/channels who claim that they are working with social responsibility, decide to telecast a goon’s interview at prime time represents what kind of social responsibility.

Anyways what good the name of a city brings to its people. Even after changing Bombay name to Mumbai  people of “maximum city” live like cattle in slums and travel like cattle in the over crowded public transportation and year after year they suffer the same fate in monsoon. No one bothers to find a solution to these problems but they are more concerned about the name of the city and the language the shop boards are written. Saddest part is that these goon’s and the political parties they form control considerable part of Indian electorate.