RAJ,YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!!
The heading might sound strange even repelling to someone. Raj and even Sena want to control the influx of outsiders to Mumbai and even issue permits for entry. But Raj is not making any unlawful demand.

Do you know that even in INDIA you have to get a permit to visit certain parts, it might be shocking to you is’nt it?

Well Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram, three out of the seven sisters can’t be visited if you do'nt have a permit issued by their state governments. Even of you are an INDIAN citizen.

I realized this when I went to visit Arunachal Pradesh. I tried to get a permit in Kolkata and as usual the bureaucrats told me a 100 rules and turned it down. Dejected I changed my plans and decided to visit another location. But on train to Guwahati I met an old friend of mine who works in AP and he gave a laugh when I told the reason of changing my plans. To cut the story short, in Guwahati I met a travel agent who arranged for my permits within few hours even without any document and they were ready at the checkpost of AP.

What does the story imply, that such barriers when put for general public just become a tool for bureaucrats to fleece money ,but what does it impede? a full national integration. It is like blocking a blood vein leading to a gangrene. Who had put this in place you would naturally ask. Our colonial rulers had invented this system so that their beloved missionaries could carry on the conversion unabated. But our free rulers have’nt felt it for past 60 years. The result , Nagaland and Mizoram are 100% Christians and AP is also losing it’s tribal heritage. Both the states have several terrorist organizations demanding sovereignity.Same is the case with Kashmir where you cannot buy a piece of land if you are not local because of article 370.

So RAJ, this demand will not serve anyone, if it does it will be to those who cannot believe that a land of so diverse faiths, cultures, language and geography is but one GREAT NATION.

PS: in the next blog about AMAZING ARUNACHAL!!!!!!!!!!!!