I don’t know what to say about Bal Keshav Thackeray. On his death the way electronic media devoted all the air-time on the ‘Tiger of Maharashtra’, made me read about the ‘Sarkar of Mumbai’ and undeniably the interview of Balasaheb by Pritish Nandy done in 1985 for The Illustrated Weekly was most insightful.
I saw Twitter abuzz with people desperately looking for the copy of The Illustrated Weekly and I thought I would post it here for interested readers:
http://pritishnandy.com/downloads/Bal_Thackeray_Illustrated_Weekly.pdf
spooky. the date is also Nov. 17
Oh didn’t notice that…
Indeed spooky!