It's great to be back home to know that the bandits in uniform, the Mumbai Police have gone on a rampage to destroy this city's nightlife. Armed with 19th century laws, these criminals are arresting mothers in restaurants and accusing them of being prostitutes. Life goes as normal in Khetwadi and Kamathipura, where human beings are in cages and sold to sex-maniacs!
The police are also filing charges against a bar for over crowding (I wonder why the Western and Central Railways get away with it?)
In the meantime, you have politicians and senior police officials openly supporting this thugish behaviour. What has happened to my city? Is this the same place where I could be at a nightclub till 6 am (college days in the late-1990s)? Who are these criminals that claim they are only doing their jobs?
The job of the police is to serve and protect. And they fail EVERYTIME a bomb goes off, they fail when chain-snatchers have a free run of the city. They fail when 10 men in a boat turn up from across the Arabian Sea and hold the city to ransom.
I realise all this is nothing but an attempt to create a class war. You see, it's fine for criminal elements to blast music well into the night during religious festivals. They can disturb the public, grope women and vandalize and that's all fine.
The aim of these "authorities" is to mobilise the lower classes so as to keep the middle class from questioning them over corruption. Ironically, it's the corruption of the police and politicians that keep the lower classes poor in the first place!
There is a particular degree of arrogance among the politcians, civil servants and the business houses that any kind of behaviour will be accepted. I have news for them, this city will sink into the bottom of the Arabian Sea if enough people decide they won't take this kind of non sense anymore.
The police are also filing charges against a bar for over crowding (I wonder why the Western and Central Railways get away with it?)
In the meantime, you have politicians and senior police officials openly supporting this thugish behaviour. What has happened to my city? Is this the same place where I could be at a nightclub till 6 am (college days in the late-1990s)? Who are these criminals that claim they are only doing their jobs?
The job of the police is to serve and protect. And they fail EVERYTIME a bomb goes off, they fail when chain-snatchers have a free run of the city. They fail when 10 men in a boat turn up from across the Arabian Sea and hold the city to ransom.
I realise all this is nothing but an attempt to create a class war. You see, it's fine for criminal elements to blast music well into the night during religious festivals. They can disturb the public, grope women and vandalize and that's all fine.
The aim of these "authorities" is to mobilise the lower classes so as to keep the middle class from questioning them over corruption. Ironically, it's the corruption of the police and politicians that keep the lower classes poor in the first place!
There is a particular degree of arrogance among the politcians, civil servants and the business houses that any kind of behaviour will be accepted. I have news for them, this city will sink into the bottom of the Arabian Sea if enough people decide they won't take this kind of non sense anymore.
Nice post!
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