Patrick French's piece for the Economic Times today. "Bal Thackeray was always easy to caricature, because he caricatured himself '" leering quizzically at us from in front of a photo of a tiger, posing theatrically in saffron beside a famous visitor, or gesturing ostentatiously from a carved throne. From the start of his political career, when he drew cartoons for the Free Press Journal in a booth alongside the young RK Laxman, he showed an ability to mix the comic with the cruel."
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