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A SHORT HISTORY OF BOMBAY (1534 - 2008) - FROM BOM BAHIA TO BOMB BAY
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Issue Dated: December 14, 2008
Tags : Initial Public Offering | Reliance Industry | Cross Maidan | Middle India | anti-capitalist | romantic era | Haji Mastan | Karim Lala | Dawood Ibrahim | Mafia don | jehadi terrorism | Rio de Janeiro | Earth Summit | Ozone layer | Maximum City | plague | Babri Masjid | pogrom | intelligencia | Subhash Ghai | Inter Services Intelligence | Tiger Memon | Chotta Rajan | Nationalist Don | Marathi pride | Me Mumbaikar | Victoria Terminal | Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal | bloodsuckers | modus operandi | Madrid subway | London Tube blasts | carpetbaggers | moral policing | community profiling | cosmopolitan | torn asunder | purveyors of identity politics | parochialism | bashing up hapless |
Tags : Initial Public Offering | Reliance Industry | Cross Maidan | Middle India | anti-capitalist | romantic era | Haji Mastan | Karim Lala | Dawood Ibrahim | Mafia don | jehadi terrorism | Rio de Janeiro | Earth Summit | Ozone layer | Maximum City | plague | Babri Masjid | pogrom | intelligencia | Subhash Ghai | Inter Services Intelligence | Tiger Memon | Chotta Rajan | Nationalist Don | Marathi pride | Me Mumbaikar | Victoria Terminal | Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminal | bloodsuckers | modus operandi | Madrid subway | London Tube blasts | carpetbaggers | moral policing | community profiling | cosmopolitan | torn asunder | purveyors of identity politics | parochialism | bashing up hapless |
Moraji Desai was the Chief Minister of Bombay when police opened fire at Flora Fountain. About 105 activists of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti were killed. That paved the way for a separate state of Maharashtra with Bombay as its capital. A few years later, the acerbic cartoonist Balasaheb Thackeray launched the Shiv Sena that promptly started a campaign against South Indian 'outsiders'. His nephew Raj Thackeray is now targeting North Indian 'outsiders'. The battle for the soul of Bombay as a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic city of migrants continues.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
