The people of Mumbai want the British and Americans to relax their rules so that Indians are treated at par with the natives of that country. At the same time, they indulge in violence to prevent people from different parts of the same country settling temporarily or permanently in different states. I am sorry! You cannot have best of both worlds. If even one per cent of what happened in Mumbai can be justified, the ethnic violence against Indians in Malasia, Lanka, Fiji and elsewhere is cent per cent correct. In fact, Mumbai owes a lot to the migrant population. The entire film industry belongs to Punjabis, the business to Sindhis and Gujaratis, the intellegentia to south Indians and so on. In fact, the local has been able to compete only for the jobs of maid servants. It is this lack of competitiveness that fuels the insecurity and subsequent violence. It is time for the people to interospect and try to improve their competetiveness.
