“Jagannath Shankar Sheth, a proud Marathi, donated hundreds of acres of his personal land for Mumbai’s development”
As did Parsis, Jews, and Jains. Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy alone did £230,000 and funded over 120 charities…I won’t even do the inflation maths here, you know the number is staggering.
As for “modern Bombay,” how exactly do you even define the term? Modern in what sense? Wealth? Culture? Aspiration? Because if so…
Bombay modernized when a Jew from Goa turned a godforsaken island with nothing but mangroves, mosquitoes, and fisherfolk hovels into a grand Bombay Castle.
Bombay modernized when a Parsi merchant decided to give it its first modern civilian hospital, its first medical school, its first art school, and its first and only physical link to the rest of the country with Mahim Causeway.
Bombay modernized when an Englishman glued together tiny disparate islands into the monolith you recognize today with a Reclamation program that lasted long after he was dead.
Bombay modernized when a Baghdadi Jew built its first wet docks that would serve as the entrepôt for all the wealth that poured into it from both hemispheres in the late 19th century.
Bombay modernized when a Jain from Gujarat turned it into the economic powerhouse that it continues to be with Asia’s first stock market.
And Bombay modernized when a Parsi became the first to start trade with China more than half a century before Jagannath Shankar Sheth was even born.
The list could go on with Muslims and Marwaris but you get the drift.
Yes, Shankar Sheth’s contribution to Bombay is immense…top tier even. But to single him out as the “Maker of Modern Bombay” is just you acting out your personal chauvinism. Ideally one shouldn’t assign such titles to single communities but if you must, for every Marathi name you list, others could in a heartbeat list 4 non-Marathi names in response. The idiotic game could go on forever.
If you have the time.
@MattWalshBlog If you hate birthright citizenship, amend the Constitution like the Founders designed. Stop crying for executive orders and SCOTUS to rewrite the 14th Amendment for you. That's how this works. Man up or shut up.
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I truly enjoyed Dhurandhar part 1 will someone as talented as Aditya Dhar make a film on the loot of the Ram Mandir? Looted by those personally vetted & appointed by Modi
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Marine Genda bhai, spare us the TDS gyan. Spain has 44.5% bald men because of Mediterranean genetics and DHT sensitivity, not because their tap water is 200-700 ppm. Madrid's water is actually excellent. You really think Pune/Mumbai's '50-100 ppm' lol, tell that to borewell areas is why Indians have less baldness? Stop coping with pseudoscience and learn basic biology. Your 'purest water' theory is as thick as your skull, genda.
@VijayGajeraO When I posted about my Bua Ji who was a teacher at Seth Kooverji Khimji Lohana Gujarati School before Partition & my wish to visit someday, Nasir Dhillon DM’d me immediately. He offered to arrange a meeting at the embassy for the visa and handle the entire trip. Coincidence?
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> Indian origin man pays off Loan of 176 graduates even after knowing the amount of hate Indians get online
meanwhile that one Trillionaire does nothing except boosting hatred against people of colour on twitter 🥀