A ghati encounter

Ghati is the colloqual term in bombay for some thing low class. But the term ghati also refers to the people from the western ghats, today I had the good fortune of meeting a well built young muslim boy from there.

He works as an installer of large Air conditioning units in buildings. He hailed from Ratnagiri, the konkan heartland I asked him who was elected from their and what was the communal situation. His answer surprised me.

He told me that it was the Shiv Sena that was ruling there and even the muslims voted for them. What pleasently surprised me was that in his village he had never heard of a communal riot growing up. The shiv sena had done good work in the district, and had no incentive to start a communal riot.

He said his father and brother too worked in the gulf and that they had two rooms in bombay, one in Kurla and another some place else. In one stayed his mother and brother/sister the other they had rented out.