On Sunday 17 Jul 2011 12:05:30 pm Vinayak Hegde wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Julian Philips <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sidin, > > Very touching article. > > http://www.livemint.com/2011/07/15204615/Thief-in-the-night.html?h=D > > A article on the "Mumbai Spirit" > http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/07/bombing-in-mumbai.ht > ml > > Over the years, my thoughts have gone from pride about it to thinking > it is plain insensitivity and indifference to loss of human lives. > > -- Vinayak > "Mumai spirit" is pure bullshit. If someone breaks my leg today - I will still need to limp to the toilet tomorrow. That is not "spirit", its necessity.
I think Mumbai is a badly mismanaged city where the politcians are clearly a nexus with criminal. This is an open secret. Elewhere I was doing a comparison of the population desity, police to population ratio and other parameters of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. Mumbai does not come out as the worst in any of these parameters. Yet Mumbai is the one that takes the hits. I am certain it is piss poor governance with "Pawarful" people at the helm. The city neeeds a serious clean up. shiv
