Here’s a solution, okay?

Since everyone is baying for some blood and demanding solutions, Paromita has one:

So anyway, here’s something I think the Tatas could do, just symbolically so that maybe the cliche of indiscriminate openness that people bandy about without a thought can be a little more true. Because after all, why should only the cabbies, the dabbawalas, the train commuters and the other regular folk have to bear the onus of maintaing the spirit of Bambai?

I think when the Taj is fixed up and restored, its ground floor sea fronted rooms should be turned into a public tea-room where not only the rich, but all sorts of people, can come in and afford the price of the tea. A place they keep as clean and lovely, if not as plush, as the rest of the hotel. A place which says – this building is a Bombay icon because the wealth of this city which was generated as much by workers as by industrialists, has also made it so – and this tea-room is a token participation in that idea. I think this would be a simple gesture and a step towards erasing those hard lines that keep one type of Bombayite far away from another, indeed, indicating which type of Indian citizen benefits more from our supposed democracy. Those are the things we also have to work at changing besides holding governments responsible for their duties. That won’t require much money from them. But it would require a bigger heart.

Linked by space bar. Join Blogbharti facebook group.

0 Responses to “Here’s a solution, okay?”


  1. No Comments

Leave a Reply

Enter the two words with a space in between




Indian Blog Directory

After the meticulous tagging of each post we link to from Blogbharti under many categories, we have been able to come up with a sizeable cross-linked and independently tagged blog directory. Read more here: the meta-directory of Indian blogs.

 

March 2010
M T W T F S S
« Feb    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Get Blogbharti Content

Important note: The site feed urls have changed. Please update your feed reader with these feed urls

Site Feed
Comments Feed

Contact us:

Email us at contact [at] blogbharti.com

Active Discussions

  • Parviaz Ahmad
  • ASHISH SHARMA
  • Dr Mohammad Sidiq
  • Arvind
  • amit koul
  • akashkerala
  • Alex
  • amit koul
  • anjugandhi
  • Arun Taparua
  • Athar ali khan
  • Brahaman
  • CBE
  • chaitali
  • Dr K M Sherrif
  • Hanvant
  • Heamant
  • laurel
  • malaysia hindu to...
  • mattoruvan
  • Meghna
  • My Blog
  • paul
  • PISTIL PRINCESS
  • rahul sharma shan...
  • Rajashekara
  • Rakesh Kumar
  • Rising Dalits
  • Saint
  • Sandhir
  • sridhar raman
  • syed nayab
  • The son of Mother