>>To watch mutely as the Bangladeshis supported by the Dawood and other sects troop in?
Interested to know about your take on the Bangaladeshi context in Bombay also…
Delhi anyway has a flourishing racket of fake identity cards for Bangladeshis: essentially money lubricates the slippages between the "self" and the "other"...a well-documented fact anyway…
And I have to admit, that as a Bangla speaking Indian-Bengali, I do have a deeply *ambivalent* engagement with the 'nation-state' of Bangladesh. And I am also aware that this ambivalence runs the risk of being conflated with absolutist positions on issues like "national/personal security"…
On 12/13/05, Abhishek Hazra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>If the Sena is rejected, what choice does a Mumbaikar have?
as a thought-experiment. What would you have done if you were a Mumbaikar? in the 90s? Now?On 12/13/05, Srini RamaKrishnan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Are you claiming that the Shiv Sena is universally popular among
> Maharashtrians? This is not the impression I have.
My limited observation tells me that the Sena support is strong among
many Maharashtrians. If the Sena is rejected, what choice does a
Mumbaikar have? To watch mutely as the Bangaldeshis supported by the
Dawood and other sects troop in? I'm not saying that there is much
choice in the matter, but for one reason or the other, most
Maharashtrians have chosen to stay with the Sena.
Cheeni
