>>Mercifully there’s someone in our political classes who still stands up for Mumbai’s fast eroding liberal character. Milind Deora, minister of state of communications and information technology and South Mumbai’s charismatic MP says he despairs for the erstwhile city that never sleeps. “This recent wave of intolerance is very scary and a dangerous encroachment on the freedom of the individual,” he told us. “My view is that if someone’s not getting in to your home and face, what he does on his own time should not be anyone else’s business. All this micro managing of people and Mumbai’s nightlife is not required,” he said. Spoken like a true liberal we say. After all, wasn’t Deora the man who almost four years ago, initiated the landmark RTI debate in Parliament which brought about the historic act that empowers Indian citizens?u00a0Oh and he plays a mean blues guitar too.