tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538874342968130652.post764498601522906373..comments2024-03-27T10:36:39.504+05:30Comments on tantu-jaal: Better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone...Sunil Mukhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155823169161030174noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538874342968130652.post-87787953354139936352013-05-23T00:53:57.868+05:302013-05-23T00:53:57.868+05:30The sheer value of the land occupied by the raceco...The sheer value of the land occupied by the racecourse is probably what has excited the saliva glands of greed! Horse racing is the "social need of a civilised nation" said no less a reformer than Kemal Attaturk, and Bombay needs the racecourse, with its heritage structures, to continue to provide a vital activity that nets the State Government about Rs.50 crores per annum.<br /><br />What is more contentious is having two cricket stadiums adjacent to each other -- Brabourne and Wankhede, the latter an unnecessary monument to political one-upmanship. <br /><br />And if one is exploring this route, how about shifting the State Capital with Mantralaya, its support structures and all the bungalows of ministers to Parbhani -- more or less the geographical centre of a state which stretches to a longitude as far East as Madras (a.k.a. Chennai)?Dark Legendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13666253995433303609noreply@blogger.com