Thackeray thought beyond the obvious

November 18, 2012 11:41

Bal Thackeray was my first friend when I arrived in Bombay in the winter of 1982. Thackeray disapproved of Bombay and called it Mumbai. But then he disapproved of many things, good and bad. -- Pritish Nandy's piece for the Hindustan Times. Read
Columnist and senior journalist Pritish Nandy was nominated to the Rajya Saba by the Shiv Sena.

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