Hindi, Hindu , Jai Maharashtra
Hindi- Let us start with the Hindi movie hub and huge employment and revenue generator Bollywood which is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra- a Hindi people hating state — for no good reason. If hatred is an art, none is as good an artist as a Marathi while hating Hindi. The hatred for Hindi is evident in the video below which showcases his malice against language and people:
Hindu — Now, let us talk about the headquarter of Hinduism — in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The headquarter, has not affected a single local Masjid in Maharashtra. But, it was instrumental in demolition of Babri Masjid in UP which was a fine historical architectural piece. What else, it also has got grounded one Ram temple of historical importance — all this , just to create a new Ram temple, in UP, in two decades, after full fledged communalisation- which is just not required to build a religious structure in a secular nation like India.
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Just a quick reminder: Tamil Nadu’s so called secular Brahmins also batted for Ram Mandir in Uttar- Pradesh , even though they are never going to visit there. Let’s not forget how high they think of Hindi:
Jai Maharashtra — All this did not hurt Marathi people, in Nagpur, or elsewhere in Maharashtra — who hate talking in Hindi — because the people who got killed from both sides in babri case were north Indian people. Marathi Chief Minister , from Shiv Sena , named Uddhav Thackrey, was quick in calling out the netizens of Ramjanmbhumi, basically Hindi heartland people — who were hindus and at times even upper caste and males. He declared them outsiders and thence, we witnessed the biggest exodus after partition of India. In independent India it was the biggest exodus- people case back to home towns with a lot of emotional and physical injuries. The exodus was unconstitutional given that people were forced out of the host states against will while constitution gives them fundamental right to work and stay anywhere in India. This right was inalienable until Uddhav kept people hungry got them crush under running trains and deprived them of the basic amenities of life.
These Hindi heartland people work their sweat out to generate revenue and thereby GDP in Maharshtra who became the most immediate witness and direct victims of the biggest exodus after partition of India in History of India which happened during lockdown due to Covid 19. This exodus happened because Mr. Thackeray had galls to say that these revenue generating people from hindi heartland are outsiders and marathi government will not spend money and resources on the netizens of Devbhumi and ramjanmbhumi no matter if they are Hindus or even upper-caste.
These people’s home states, the respective native states of these migrants, have a legitimate share in GST that gets divided between centre and the host states. And, this fact makes the whole GST regime and exercise futile for the deserving people. It is just better than the whole sole collection of taxes by the host states. These hostile host states don't deserve taxes from outsiders who are already giving services at extremely exploitative wage rates and trying and tiring working hours.
Most media reports lobbied to present the crisis of migrants’ exodus as accidental and tried to present Thackeray in good light covering up his past records of treating outsiders with sticks and guns. Under these circumstances we relied on you-tubers who did a really good job in raising migrants’ issues when major publications were on the run to cover up. They are these You-tubers who found a face of aggression, turmoil and protest in Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR). SSR died recently and his interviews are remnants of the typical excommunicating and isolating behavior of nepotistic Bollywood and regionalistic Maharashtra. This was high time and common people made sure that the justice is delivered. This utter democratic reply to an undemocratic section of people was indigestible and rightly so.
Conclusion — The same major publications who were scared of reporting on migrants find it futile to report on SSR. Just a few more years, and the time will belong completely to you-tubers and bloggers- an era of journalism which is yet-not-so-believable by giants of journalism. With the crumbling down of these giants, there with be entry of democracy in journalism for the first ever time in the history. And, from a democratic journalism, the same democratic values will seep into society and its politics. Journalism houses would need the same PR agents who are hired by celebs to promote their so called truth to power.
