Confused?
Well, this letter was sent to all the shop owners in our area.. this one is regarding the rule of having shop names in Maharashtrian language. The rule was passed by BMC in 1960.
And this letter?
Well, it was sent by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
So what does this letter say?
You would have understood if you know to read Marathi. But for the ones who cannot understand Marathi.. here we go..
(I am translating the whole thing, specially the highlighted areas as a summary.)
By not putting your shop hoarding in Marathi, you are insulting Maharashtra & a common Maharashtrian man, which is a sin / not legal. On behalf of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, we are giving you period of 1 month to put up the boards in Marathi. (As this law was already passed in 1960)
And if you do not change your boards in Marathi and do not speak Marathi with your customers, we will make sure we teach you Marathi in our terms and I will personally take care of the things.
If you do not take this warning seriously then we will make sure that how to tackle you. It’s better you understand this and implement in a month, otherwise we know how to handle the issue.
I am not able to understand who authorized them legally to send these kind of threatening letters to anyone.
The things they have mentioned might be right but the way it’s been put up is completely wrong and unethical. And apart from that, our current ruling government is allowing this kind of “dadagiri”.
I am really worried about the future of our country, every political party is running behind the votes. No security for a common man. And I am not even sure, how a common sensible man will vote for them? (After seeing all these things)
And we call it Democracy.. haha
If you wish to read whole letter, then do check it here
31-Jul-2008 at 3:22 pm
this is a threat in clear words… i think you must go to the shopkeepers organization and finally to police, please do not tolerate this. the government is closing their eyes and ears over this for a long time and this stuff is surely an offense and deserves a legal challenge.
31-Jul-2008 at 3:31 pm
Dharmesh - thats what I told her to go, but she said, it’s better we put up in small letters rather than going against these goons.
Others - Sorry guys by mistake the comments got deleted by me.
01-Aug-2008 at 10:50 am
now this is seriously crazy stuff…how can the government let such things happen. I mean instead of improving, things are only getting worse. Seriously is this what future has for us? Its a scary place to live in then I’m afraid.
01-Aug-2008 at 11:06 pm
This is Outrageous!…
I mean That Raj Thakrey/ Uddhav Thakrey combo is sending wrong message to whole country…
I am sure if all non-marathi people will move out of mumbai/maharashtra there won’t be much left.
And I am sad to see government is quite on this.. why? Ain’t these people acting like a terrorist group by sending warning letters like this?
This isn’t Democarcy.. This is dictatorship by someone who ain’t even king.
01-Aug-2008 at 11:19 pm
I couldn’t agree with you more. After this incident, no Indian will ever tell that India is a democratic country! They can’t do this to the non-maharashtrians.
10-Sep-2008 at 3:13 pm
Tell me one thing.. Where should Maharashtrians go to speak marathi if not in maharashtra ????????????
How Marathi ll Stay alive. not only marathi, Gujrati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Malyalam, Assamis, Manipuri, kashmiri ???????
if marathi is not in maharashtra, gujrati is not in gujrat, tamil not in tamil nadu, oriya not in orissa, kashmiri not in kashmir, …. where we should go with our state lanugages ?????? Canada, USA, UK, where should we go with our languages…. do even understand what is democracy????????
your kind of ppl still call mumbai BOMBAY coz u r still Ghulam of british. but mumbai is azad we call it marathi its not ghulam of britishers anymore.. coz we cant forget thousands of ppl gave lives to make it free.. and idiots like u still call it BOMBAY and teaching ppl democracy….
10-Sep-2008 at 4:51 pm
Boon - If everyone speaks Marathi in Maharashtra, Gujarati in Gujarat, Punjabi in Punjab.. then how Hindi our Rashtrabhasha will survive? haha What I am trying to say is, any language cannot be survided just because of speaking it.. the language is part of the whole culture.. and that is what we need to focus on.. not the small things..
As being an India, I am free to use any of the Indian languages but YES, Hindi should be first priority in any state… it does not matter if am Maharashtrian, Gujarati or Punjabi.. the country should come first..
About calling Bombay.. now tell me one thing, what difference did we make after changing Bombay to Mumbai? Any growth in the economy? less people died? NO.. nothing.. it is just that politicians got satisfaction.. it does not affect a common man..
The thing is, we should be more worried about serious things rather than silly things like this.. and we should SERIOUSLY start thinking about OUR COUNTRY rather than STATES..
And next time.. use proper language.. no point in acting like kids..