For just a moment, the Indian mainstream media tears its gaze away from the rich to report on how the poor are fighting, as they have been day in and day out, to save their homes from becoming fodder for the developers ... as Naresh Fernandes wrote If only politicians and my friends in the media had demonstrated so much empathy for the residents of Golibar, Sion Koliwada and other places in Bombay who are the victims of illegal evictions by builders. ... the final sentence of the article says it all Shiv Sena MP Anil Desai admits that any move to save the Campa Cola residents will have a long term impact. We have to take legal opinion and move. We have to consider every aspect. ... that is, they have to consider that if they accommodate Campa Gola, they will have to accommodate all others who have a right to recognition ... and that is many. Many more than there are rich. This is exactly the same logic Europe uses to exclude and illegalize immigrants. We just do it at the continents border, more than in the middle of our cities. ... Speaking of which, we might mention that the refugees of Amsterdam have been thrown out on the street again ... There is something deeply wrong with this moment in world history, when we have so much wealth and are using it so destructively all across the world to throw away so much human capital & so many human lives. We can do better than this.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:51:47 +0000