Why are locals feeling deprived in Mumbai and Maharashtra. Do outsiders have a sinister motive against them. Do they have an agenda. Is the whole of India conspiring to deny the locals of their genuine rights of the land.
Is what maharashtra seeing different from what happens globally.
The economic integration of communities across cultural, regional boundaries brings about such forces of change so as to create these local churns. Sound economics always rewards merit. A democratic system focussed on equality and equality of opportunity always rewards those who takes risks, are pro-active and willing to take on. This is my observation, mostly based on similarities with Darwinian evolution that locals by compulsions of the thought would tend to be left behind compared to those who are mobile. Indians and Chinese in America are successful not because they are Indians/Chinese nor because they are in America. They are successful because as individuals they consciously chose to take a direction of mobility, economic growth and risk sometime in their life and were willing to take on its consequences. Race does not matter. The same phenomenon is seen in migrations across europe or even intra american migrations. Such behavior is pretty distinct from the fact that locals by choice are typically much more stroner compared to locals by compulsion. locals by choice are communities, which know their core competence well and are able to survive and compete on their own terms. This is a more pro-active agenda of self protection. Take for example, Bengal and Gujarat. Both have very strong ethnic biases. Both have a a typical system of running business that does not allow other communities to foster their growth and hence resists migration. Gujarat because of the way, it shields itself with a spirit of local enterprise and go. Bengal because of the way it fosters unionism and non-enterprise, it prevents migration of intellectual capital into the state. Both the states preserve the interest of the local community. One does it by fostering open economics and enterprise and yet is pro-active about its internal community. The other works in closed economic model and does not allow market forces to come in and settle.
Maharashtra has a choice to make. Which way does it want to go. Raj Thackery has to decide. I feel sorry for Raj that Maharashtra has grown by allowing immigration and loosing it's own character atleast in Mumbai. They can make it look now more like calcutta or like ahmedabad if they want to protect local interests or they can just leave it like mumbai as it is today, There are choices and they need different approaches to move forward. Burning taxis is definitely not going to make it either of those. It can however make it look like capital of Zimbabwe. That too is a choice.