Bad parochialism, good provincialism?

September 04, 2012 11:53

Every time there's a hullabaloo over what Balasaheb Thackeray or his feisty (and politically estranged) nephew Raj Thackeray has said or, to be more precise, alleged to have said, I cannot help but wonder what media would have done on a dull day had the Thackeray clan not existed. The kerfuffle over what media claims Raj Thackeray has said about Biharis during a closed-door meeting with MNS members is a case in point.

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