Comments on: Readers Digest got it all wrong !!

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:50:35 +0000

in the post above read “There is comparison” as “There is NO comparison”.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:48:43 +0000

There is comparison. Mumbai was rated one of the rudest cities (given their instruments of measuring “politness” and “rudness”) and I think no Indian city would fair any better.

The whole “Mumbai spirit” is utter non-sense, people help those affected by bombs even in Columbia; It’s basic human sense, what did you expect? What’s with “Mumbai is back on track” raves anyway? It’s a city in which more than 5 million people live in slums. They have two choices, get out and risk being bombed or stay home and die of hunger eventually. I think the people of Mumbai did the former. This was so well put by Rahul Bose’s report in CNN-IBN – “So I really think it’s more of a need as opposed to a slightly more romanticised notion of pride.” So much for indifference!

By: Sorry State

Sorry State — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:55:39 +0000

Some to think of it again, if there were no more terrorist attacks on Mumbai, when/how would anyone really demonstrate the “spirit” of Mumbai?

By: Sorry State

Sorry State — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:50:19 +0000

Dunno about rude but one thing is for shure. Yo guyz apathy is pathetic.

y’all can’t even get the civic administration to fix the storm water drains. Every monsoon season it’s the same story and the monsoons are far more predictable than terrorist attacks.

If Mumbaikars are hoping there would be no more terrorism they are soundly mistaken. Like a battered wife who’d rather commit suicide than stand up for her rights, they are the perfect victim.

By: Arthur Quiller-Couch

Arthur Quiller-Couch — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:36:42 +0000

Vikram, you were making sense till that second-last para. Pull your head back out of your ass, it usually works better that way.

By: vikram

vikram — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:04:01 +0000

lazy,
dont join the band and go ga-ga over the “amazing mumbaites”.Leave that to NDTV,CNN-IBN or Times Now!!!
(A point here-i was born in Matunga – yes,one of the 7 places which was bombed–so i am no “mimbai-basher”.Though i am now settled in chennai)

No.1 – ppl. in india show “unity”,”brotherhood” and all “noble virtues” only during times of crisis.When things are fine,we get back to our self.Now that Mumbai has come to normal–do you see people distributing food/water today–even though 1000s of them are out in mumbai deprieved of the same.

No.2 – it is the duty of every man(ATLEAST IN TIMES OF CRISIS) to help each other.It is expected of everybody-you cant just walk past a man lying in pool of blood.otherwise,what world are we living in?!

if all the praises that are showered by media on mumbai were true,why,in the first place,did the bombings happen?

sit back and think…….

By: Ramnath

Ramnath — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:27:24 +0000

Hi Guru, thanks for linking :-)

It’s an amazing place, no doubt about it.

By: nona

nona — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:52:31 +0000

lazy – what are you – a 55+ grocery checkout line impulse buyer? who reads reader’s digest these days? they are so – 1960s (in the us, atleast).

By: nilu

nilu — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:14:23 +0000

marana pethal

By: iii

iii — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:12:49 +0000

Its readers digest afterall, what more can one expect from them!!!

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:59:44 +0000

Mumbai, truly a great place!!

By: priya

priya — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:32:47 +0000

ha, i think this is the first step to the beginning of not craving for phoren appreciation.