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Tag Archives: Raj Thackeray

Posted on 2 February 2010 by churumuri
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If Ambani, Tendulkar, Shah Rukh aren’t safe…?


The overcooked chickens of divisive politics are coming home to roost on the streets of Bombay for the cooks, chefs and cleaners who were dishing it out for decades. As …

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Posted on 21 January 2010 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Free to work anywhere?


Six days before the 60th anniversary of the Constitution of India, the Congress government in Maharashtra has behaved no better than thuggish political parties and outfits acting in the name …

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Posted on 3 December 2009 by churumuri
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We are all outsiders & insiders in India i.e. Bharat


In the RSS mouthpiece, Organiser, Jay Dubashi addresses the “outsider” bug that is biting several States and cities against the backdrop of the assault on Samajwadi Party MP Abu Azmi …

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Posted on 12 November 2009 by churumuri
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‘Hindi’s like Hinduism, not the only thing around’


R. Jagannathan, executive editor of DNA, hits the nail on the nationalistic head in the Raj Thackeray-Abu Azmi faceoff on Marathi versus Hindi: “Speaking about Hindi as a national language …

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Posted on 17 August 2009 by churumuri
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Tweet, tweet, who’s there? Ghulam Nubbyazz


With middle-class India—not rural India, or the poor sections of middle-class India—in the throes of a fine slew, GAUTAMA P. hacks into the Titter account of health minister Ghulam Nabi …

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Posted on 25 March 2009 by churumuri
48

Brits divided & ruled. Our netas rule & divide.


SUJATA RAJPAL writes: I often marvel at those who have the knack of identifying the religion/ region of a person just by looking at their attire, name, surname, or even …

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Posted on 3 January 2009 by churumuri
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Ask not what they have given but what you have


E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: It’s a time to give; it’s time to hand over gifts to the important and not so important, for their contributions in the year gone by. *** …

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Posted on 7 December 2008 by churumuri
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Once upon a time in Bangalore on Route No. 11


E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Bangalore in the 1950s and ’60s was still a Pensioners’ Paradise and very much a sleepy town. It was mostly divided into “City” and “Cantonment” with Basavanagudi …

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Posted on 3 December 2008 by churumuri
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‘Our netas have raped every part of Mother India’


It is open season on the Indian politician. E.R. RAMACHANDRAN forwards a copy of an open letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh, purportedly from a resident of Nepean Sea Road, …

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Posted on 21 October 2008 by churumuri
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Is there nobody to speak for our ‘local’ worms?


In the gardens of Bangalore palace, an audacious “outsider” grabs the birthright of worms of the soil and makes merry. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Raj Thackeray gets ready to …

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Posted on 16 October 2008 by churumuri
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CHURUMURI POLL: Is Jet right to sack employees?


Jet Airways has let go of hundreds of employees, a day after tying up with Kingfisher Airlines, in the first, visible manifestation of the global economic crisis hitting home. Union …

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Posted on 11 September 2008 by churumuri
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Please save the Marathi Manoos & Mannina Maga


ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: The relentless march of humanity has resulted in the extinction of several species of flora and fauna from this world, and now threatens to swallow …

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Posted on 10 September 2008 by churumuri
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‘Media shapes, sexes up, manipulates, distorts’


Is the media playing with the tiger’s tail? Or is the tiger cub riding the media? In other words, just how much is the media responsible for the Raj Thackeray …

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Posted on 8 September 2008 by churumuri
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One question I’m dying to ask Raj Thackeray


First the uncle, then the nephew. India’s most cosmopolitan city, Bombay, is being destroyed bit by bit by cartoonists in the name of “reconstruction” of the Marathi ethos. If old …

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Posted on 6 June 2008 by churumuri
32

Since all the problems have been solved, let us…


The following is the editorial that appeared in Loksatta (published by the Indian Express Group) on Wednesday, June 4, on the Maharashtra government’s decision to install a gigantic statue of …

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Posted on 8 May 2008 by churumuri
23

Where you see Marathi, replace it with Kannada


Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi newspaper Lok Satta, writes in the Indian Express on Raj Thackeray‘s specious claim that his only aim (in targetting Biharis, etc) is to protect …

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Posted on 10 March 2008 by churumuri
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‘Kannada, Karnataka are safe, robust, respected’


After nonchalantly watching, when not silently applauding, the audacious assault on the very soul of Kannada, Kannadiga and Karnataka, the mainstream media seems to be waking up to the pregnant …

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Posted on 7 March 2008 by churumuri
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Raj Thackeray st Bombay b Iqbal Abdulla 19


The under-19 Indian team which won the World Cup last Sunday had only one player from Bombay: Iqbal Abdulla. The left-arm spinner had a 10-wicket haul in Malaysia, and was …

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Posted on 3 March 2008 by churumuri
77

Pampa to Champa: What a fall, my countrymen!


The outrage of Kannada organisations at a poem written by a Canadian employee of the IT company Sasken that reportedly abuses and makes fun of Kannadigas, has taken a familiar …

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Posted on 26 February 2008 by churumuri
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The strange, sad and scandalous silence of Big B


SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Everything that’s happened over the past fortnight in this great metropolis built by those who have made it their home, from near and far, has …

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Posted on 26 February 2008 by churumuri
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One question I’m dying to ask… Lalu Prasad


They said the Railways would go bankrupt in 2015; he is now announcing a profit of Rs 25,000 crore by leaving passenger fares untouched year after year. They said he …

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Posted on 25 February 2008 by churumuri
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Should hate-mongrels be given space in media?


The media has been a key player in Raj Thackeray‘s hate campaign against “outsiders” in Bombay. In giving him the oxygen of publicity, in editorialising news, in fanning the flames …

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Posted on 23 February 2008 by churumuri
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‘Do political movements need to obey the law?’


Raj Thackeray, the Posterboy of Parochialism (West), has responded to an open letter in The Indian Express from Sudheendra Kulkarni, the Belgaum-born media advisor to Atal Behari Vajpayee and L.K. …

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Posted on 20 February 2008 by churumuri
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From far, even a fire looks like a nice little spark


  BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: As Raj Thackeray follows his uncle Bal Thackeray‘s footsteps in trying to tap revanchist linguistic and regional sentiments, we need to take a look at …

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Posted on 19 February 2008 by churumuri
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Does Lalu have guts to call anybody else ‘dirty’?


K. Subrahmanya in Deccan Herald: “Under the Third Schedule of the Constitution, a part of the oath of office of secrecy a Union Cabinet rank minister takes while being sworn-in …

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