Friday, May 11, 2007

who's delhi is it anyway?..

Well after a self imposed break from blogging , i am back.Last few days a rather credulous remark from delhi CM has irked the dilliwalas.Her chide at the biharis and UP walas and linking them to the bulging population of the city has raised many an eyebrows. The question to be asked is does any1 in the first place has right to be called delhi ka beta or beti?...Lemme take my own case...Sumukh Herlekar...the moment my fellow delhi walas hear this "KAR"...oh k herlekar--->tendulkar-->gavaskar...tum to maharahstra ke ho yaha kya kar rahe ho??.some bannerjee or Balasubramaniam would surely empathise with me...how do i react .... feel puzzled as well as annnoyed,when some kapoor or chabbra or some gupta asks me this!! arnt the punjabis named after punjab!!!!..or the tectonic plates movement has shifted it to sumwhere near lajpat nagar!!..3 generations of herlekar khandan have been born n bought up here in Delhi so we feel we have the genuine right to swear by the delhi ki sardi as well.Leaving aside personal rants, We can trace back the city's history zillion years back and yet we wouldnt have a clear answer to who can claim to be the city's aborogines. Mumbai , and now a city like bangalore have also had the native population up in arms against the migrants.If a mallu(Disclaimer: Use of slang is not ment to hurt the sentiments of the community) shridharan can build a world class delhi metro courtsey the hard work put in by migrants( read from Bihar and Upwalas), the city takes immense pride.Dont we????.... What plagues the people in indian metros is the narrow outlook and the inability to have a collective effort to make city flourish. So all Thackery's Dixits,Khans,kapoors,Aggarwals,Chatterjees,Patels,Yadavs,Nairs,Das etc etc ...stay in harmony and make a city better place to live in. Ps: **** The overtly emotional and preaching tone of the blog is not to be taken seriously. **** Total time spent in writing this blog : 45 mins( :):):):) ) ---------MISSION OF PASSING TIME IN OFFICE ACCOMPLISHED--------------------

10 comments:

Azeez Narain said...

corny as it may sound..but as they say dilli hai dilwalon ki ;-) - Az

lokesh said...

hahahaha... when i read about the story in today's papers, i also felt the same thing. What I also felt was that, sadly, all ire goes against BPL class people only. be it maharashtra, Karnatka or delhi. The 'elite' class educated 'migrants' escape the wrath coz of obvious reasons ...not that i am advocating they should come under fire...but the point is...u can't discount out the efforts of labor class who comprise the mass force of delhi...agar bihari chaley gaye delhi se...to kya jaat bhai aayengey kya kaam karney :)

nimisha said...

lol! lol! lol! very true..! wot these 'so-called-dilliwalas' don't understand.. is tht they too have actually migrated here, from somewhere else..! lol! and tht if anybody's.. then th delhi can only be called politicians'..! ;)

i love your blog.. it is like so entertaining..!

keep posted..! :D

Piu said...

Excellent post!! 'The overtly emotional and preaching tone of the blog' did the trick:)

Suhas said...

Hey interesting post. What I found more interestign than Sheila Dixit's comment was Laloo's response! sure you'll agree :)

Aniket said...

Good yar ... i see your frustration oozing out from ur posts

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