D. Goel,afternoon,5.10pm,Tuesday,April 8th ,2008. No doubt Raj Thackeray is making a Mountain of a Mole -Hill.the UP-ean Mochi ,and Dhobi or taxidriver or palledar, Hamal has as much right to slog and breathe and save his coppers in Brihan Mumbai as the great Maratha Manus / Manausi.Bachchan has just dared the Hammal led protests with dour steely resolve to live on in Amche Mumbai. This is his Right as much as of Sharad Pawar/Thackerays or millions of our dear countrymen from South ,East. West or North. We must grow out of hatred and jealousy of those who make it.After-all for one Amitabh the super-star there are are hundreds of coolies, truck-drivers,cleaners,Dudhwalas Ayas , and Cha-walas who serve the great crowds of Parel, Kurla, Marine lines,and milling crowds on the express highways from Borivili to Central or Maharaj Chatrapati Terminals day-in and day -out.Would Mumbaikars could run its services without all these hamals , Ayas ,Dhobis, or Durbans and street-corner unglamorous groceries and Pav-Bhaji stands at Chowpatty Sea-Scape?D Goel
