Checkmate: How the BJP Won and Lost Maharashtra

by Sudhir Suryawanshi

On 13 August 1960, Bal Thackeray decided to launch his weekly magazine of cartoons—Marmik (poignant)—with the help of his brother Shrikant Thackeray, the father of Raj Thackeray who founded the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).