Why Raj Thackeray still rules the audience

After tasting two consecutive defeats in the parliamentary and assembly elections in Maharashtra, the political pundits and public in general, thought that Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) was doomed and his political career is finished. With no presence in either house of parliament and but nominal presence in state legislature - MNS has just one member in state assembly - Raj's clout was nowhere to be seen. Even the numerous...

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Chimanrao for this generation

It has been over a century since C. V. Joshi created the most famous literary character of Maharashtra – Chimanrao. This quintessential middle-class clerk is to the Maharashtra what Feluda is to the Bengal and Swamy is to the Karnataka – though their genres are a distant apart. Chimanrao, a common man serving under the British masters and running the household as thousands of his generation did, is always the butt of the jokes and precarious situations...

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