Rahul Thackeray vs Uddhav Gandhi !!

I am an Indian who lives in Maharashtra. I may have lived in Maharashtra since my birth, but still I am an Indian first. For all my school life I had said it every day in the school's morning assembly that India is my country. All Indians are my brothers and sisters. I wonder why so many people seem to have forgot that now. Why are people starting to hate fellow Indians just because they hail from some other place in India?? I'll never know that, nor understand that, may be because i am an Indian first.
By writing this i do not want to challenge any shiv sainik nor Uddhav Thackeray, nor Raj. I deeply support their cause and do express my concern. But there's no way that i can support the means through which they intend to achieve their goals. I don't feel there's any wrong in the little Gandhi trying to move against him. But the furore and the hype it has created does attract many eyes. I am just one of them.
To begin with, I do understand that Marathi people who have been here are getting subdued in work by workers from other parts of India. So, does this mean that you should beat them up and throw them out of trains!!????!! Let norms be made so that work permits be given to migrant workers. Let their be an inquiry to find the reason why migrant workers are preferred, and they'll find (as i have) that the workers here are lazy and demand full day wages even if they haven't worked so. The migrant workers seem to working harder ( this i have come to know after talking to some local contractors). So why is the Shiv sena not taking steps to improve the quality of workers in Maharasthtra.?? If the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena does want some navnirman then they should try improve the worker's quality rather than beating out the others.! It seems to be absolutely ridiculous to threaten fellow Indians to run away or face dire consequences just because their presence would force local workers to work harder!!
Lets move ahead. I understand that Pakistan is politically India's enemy, but are Pakistani cricketers the same.? Then why not allow them to play on Indian soil.?? This is what Shah Rukh Khan meant when he said that he would like to see Pakistani Players play in the IPL. But what has happened to the Shiv sena.!?? They now call SRK a pakistani and ask him to go Karachi if he wants to see pakistani players!! What's more they even pull out posters of him starring in a movie!! I dont think the Pakistani players bat with AK47s or bowl with hand Grenades, they are just civilians like us who play good cricket!! None of them wants war or has links with terror. I would join the Sena if any pak player is caught in India involved in any terrorist activity.
For all this time i truly believed that Shiv sena had the ability to develop Maharashtra the way Gujarat moved ahead. But what they have done now seems no less than desperation and anger at being lost out for the second time in the elections and that too due to a fellow Marathi. The recent war of words with the little Gandhi seems no less. If Sena was truly concerned about the Marathi then they would have ignored him and looked at bringing in new ideas for the ruling govt. Who knows, that could help them in the next elections!
By doing all that they have done now, all they are doing is earning hatred from all others. "Don't interfere in Marathi affairs" itself seems to be a call against everyone who is not a Marathi!!! Why is the Sena in such a self-destruct mode!!?? If the little Gandhi has raised his voice, some day the whole of Maharashtra would, and if the sena continues what it's doing now, will it be able to face that call?
The day when the whole of Maharashtra shouts," I am an Indian who lives in Maharashtra"

A Lost World

3 months back, i was one of the happiest people in the world. I had the feeling that i had worked hard enough for the hardest papers to come. For a long time i had given up much of my sleep, my energy, my mind for what i believed was my war. A war with entrance exams. I was motivated like a soldier ready to go at war against an ever increasing enemy. I felt i was ready.
I have never faced this much change ever in my life in so less time. I was over joyed that some of the papers went the way i wanted them to. I was speaking like a confident orator when i told my dad that i would reject the TCS offer since i would go for my MBA. Few mock-CAT, mock XAT, mock FMS results had lifted me up. I had not realized that it had lifted me up on feathers. I was soon to fall. I just did.
The mock exams' results seem to be a mockery now. I had a 99%ile on many of the mock tests i had taken...The Lost world. The True World had something else to offer.With 2 of the 3 exams' results out, i find myself in a lost world with no walls to look for support. I could only manage a 91 in XAT...and no calls from FMS. I soon realized that i was falling from the skies. The plane i wanted to fly had started to crash...and the only parachute was TCS. I still don't know if i would open that parachute.
There's nothing that i want to do now. Dejected. Rejected. My mind resting on just one thing i had just learned :

Courage need not always be roaring. Sometimes it is the quiet voice within that says, " I will try again tomorrow. "