[Reader-list] What did the books do to you?'

[shivam]

Good point. But I suppose Pereira is trying to make another important
point: why is it that an attempt to close down dance bars makes
national headlines whereas removal of bookstalls evokes no voice of
protest?

About hawkers, I think we need a thorough national policy to secure
their rights, to decide their status vis-a-vis 'public space'.

S



On 5/25/05, Gitika Talwar <gitika.talwar at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> I live in bombay and i madly miss the bookstalls alongside Fort - I detest
> what is happening to Bombay in the past few months - the Shanghaification
> specifically....wonder what happened to the spirit that was truly Bombay and
> not an aspiration to be something else. 
>   
> however, I do recommend some caution in admonishing dance bars the way
> periera's article has done --oh so subtly -- for a variety of reasons - but
> one main one is that no one has any business shutting down bars that provide
> an honest living to a lot of people out there ...the bookstalls and the bars
> have no reason to be compared - save the fact that they both seem to provide
> an honest living to people trying their best to survive in this city. 
>   
> let us not pit the dance bars against the books - they have nothing to do
> with each other 


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