Divide by Zero Exception

History as they say repeats itself. I guess the nastier parts of it repeat themselves twice as fast.

I've always hated history as a subject. In school, it was nothing but an extremely boring storytelling of the past, taught to us by another extremely boring person with exams mainly consisting to recalling dates and facts. I my opinion nobody learned anything! ANYTHING! Which is of course the main reason why history repeats itself. (And I always detested the fact that I was made to "learn" something that was repeating itself anyway). And before repeat gets too repetitive, I'll stop all the repetitive repetition.

Well despite the barrage of dates and sundry facts about events and people, I guess I did manage to learn a few things. Like divide and rule.

Raj Thackeray however either hasn't read it, or had a phenomenally boring history teacher and slept through the lesson.

What he's been trying to do over the past few days is a disgusting attempt at power, via divide and rule. And I keep reading with increasing disgust the Machiavellian politics going on.

Of course there is still a real problem in here. It is a real fact that there have been too many migrants to Mumbai not only from Bihar but from Bangladesh as well. When the number of migrants increases to beyond the point that the city can sustain, it weighs down the infrastructure. And then it's easy to blame all those migrants as the source of all inadequacies in Mumbai.Countries can try control migrants with visas. (of course when certain North American ones can't, they call it "illegal" immigration.... but that's another story). But Mumbai shouldn't and it can't. Thankfully.

The real source of the problem is that Bihar itself hasn't had the development it needs. If it had that, if it could sustain the population on itself, I'm sure no Bihari would relish the propect of leaving hometown. As long as there is a huge gap in that development, people will always migrate.

But it doesn't look like the development can happen anytime soon. So unfortunately for the Biharis they'll have to migrate somewhere, and unfortunately for Mumbai , Maharashtra and India, xenophobes like Raj Thackrey will thrive.

All that's gonna be left in the end is a broken country, with nothing left to govern (someone can call the Brits again then). And all Raj is gonna be left with to divide and rule is a big zero.

Some real news please!

Its been a while that I've been reading about how Ash and Abhishekh Bacchan have been dancing around the world, visiting temples, creating traffic jams in the process, going on karwa chauth vrats and what nots, visiting still more temples, creating still more traffic jams and so on ad nauseum.

Why is Ash going to the temple news? I mean WTF? I don't give a rat's ass whether she actually does go on a fast or hogs doughnuts. Plus aren't we trying to be a more equal society, trying to move away from being the patriarchical society which is currently is? And isn't the media being generally irreponsible (well come to think of it, THAT isn't news either. Sigh!) when they report this on the same page as the Chandrayaan report?

I'm pissed. Someone needs to act more responsibly. Please!

The Phoenix

This blog has been dead. For a while.

A lot has happened. A lot hasn't. In the meanwhile, I've learnt many new things, forgotten old ones, wasted a lot of time, had many baths and have generally come out with the feeling I'm a better person after all. The baths helped of course.

Hopefully I'll be able to revive this one from its ashes.

Hopefully.