Who killed Bombay? Our politicians did. Every single one who has passed through the sewers of contemporary political history. Beginning with Mohammad Ali Jinnah who insisted on partition; heroism at any cost, uncaring of what would undoubtedly happen to those who preferred not to pack up and leave with him. That partition occurred again in Bombay when Bal Thackeray chose to launch his movement which summarily excluded meritocracy. And then, once again this time the final apocalyptic partition when Lal Kishan Advani set out on his yatra of malevolence on a mechanized rath. Have they ever really cared about us, these men in Jinnah mould? Or our children-the traumatized survivors of riots and bomb blasts who they now insist must carry on, holding aloft their flaming torches of hate? Will they let our successors live out their dreams in the city of their birth; or must they be forced to leave their mothers and motherland so as to shut out the vituperation of their political successors?"