Until we Maharashtrians wake up to reality it is us only to blame. Mumbai has the highest tolerance level for outsiders. Check out Gujarat and other Southern states where you need to speak their language or English, to get any attention. Mumbai is supposed to have the worst language (Bambaiyah) but who has contributed to that. Why not expect people to speak Marathi or Hindi while in Mumbai.
Mumbai has been a launching pad in many ways for all outsiders. Keralites use it to get Gulf jobs; Tamils, Kannadigas, Andhraites, you name it all make it through Mumbai and then take it back home.
Mumbai has been a giving city; the highest tax paying city in the whole of India and what does it get in return? The infrastructure is forever groaning under the weight of outsiders.
Why do we need so many outsiders living in slums. Why can't they take their slums back to their native places and slum it out there? Why do they have to come to Mumbai? I had been to Kerala for a week and saw no slums there. Those people are always vigilant and will not let anyone loiter around even for a minute and we in Mumbai don't bother when we see slums coming up and around every day.
Jai Maharashtra, Jai Hind, and away with the slums and shit.
