All newspapers today have the same headline - the Taj and the Trident have reopened. An ad in a leading newspaper yesterday said - WELCOME HOME, AGAIN...with a picture of the Taj. HOME?! Surprising, ain't it...considering 90% people of Mumbai will never be able to afford a meal here. Almost 70% if not more won't even be allowed to enter the hotel, perhaps. All arguments accepted...The damage caused to the two hotels isn't permissible, but a hotel burning down and then reopening isn't more important than all the lives which have gone, or could have gone. But of course, the media is more interested in the hotels, and the grand parties, and the celebrities who attend the peace rallies, and mourn the destruction of their favourite fine dine restaurants...
21 blasts rocked Ahmedabad in July 2008...9 blasts in Bangalore...18 blasts across Assam on bhai phonta...173 people killed in Mumbai during 26/11, the maximum at VT...Why didn't VT make it to the front page headlines when people took the train 2 days later to work...nd why did Taj and Trident?...Why is it enough only when the Taj or the Trident has been attacked, because for the first time, an attack has made perpetrated on the powerful...why are leaders being criticized by people of a constituence, where the participation in last election was less than 20%? Whose fault is it that there are no good leaders?
An attack on Taj is an attack on the 'Grand Old Lady of Mumbai'...fair enough...but what about the common man?!
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Cuz its mostly never in this country that the common man has been in the spotlight.i do not see any reason to celebrate the reopening of the Taj.
i agree. why the fuck should people celebrate the reopening of the taj? good to know that its back to minting money, but beyond that, the importance of that useless piece of trivia for the day is rather negligible.
sad state man, this place is in... srk getting kissed by the new kid in rab ne bana di jodi hogs front page space... eta toh tao some sort of news about the otherwise, very conveniently forgotten trauma...
because the world's like that...
unfair and mean.
and it doesnt make sense most of the time.
In case you haven't noticed it yet, the common man does not matter.
And those who matter (and whose percentage of the city's population is way less than 10) can either afford to call the Taj their home or, since they're on the ladder climbing up, need to in order to keep up appearances.
Aam aadmi can worry about bijli, sadak, paani before:
* getting blown apart
* drowning in a flash flood
* falling off a local train
"There are endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying"
- Chuck Palahniuk
Just for the record, while people wo can afford to do so were eating their free meals, some separatist lobbed a grenade inside Manipur's Raj Bhavan.
Then again, who gives a damn about the North East, right?
When we stop questioning the little things, one realizes the exact point when we stopped evolving as a species.
aadmi aazad hai
desh bhi swatantra hai
raja gaye rani gaye
ab to prajatantra hai.....
silly silly silllllly silly
silly silly silllllly silly
erm this be sajjanpur wala song.... just so you all don think i am mad or anything :D
-woot-
I saw a pic with some kid running in the Taj corridors in the front page. I was like wtf.
We too love to play politicians, don't we? We too love the play the blame game. But never do we think that it was us, the common man and not those murky politicians who achieved independence for India. But after that we have become too laid back about everything. Till the time we don't change ourselves, these incidents would go on being the headliners.
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