Minutes after Raj Thackeray’s arrest, this diminutive housewife took to the streets, doing the rounds of central Mumbai areas with her foot-soldiers, forcing shopowners to down their shutters and chasing hawkers off the streets.
By evening, almost all Parel and Elphinstone Road—an area dominated by the Marathi-speaking Mumbaiites and the former hub of the textile mills now slowly making way f
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Chandrabhan Singh and Ashok Jadhav share their family doctor.
When “elder brother” Singh, 50, is unwell, Jadhav, 45, makes sure to take him to their doctor promptly because, “if one of us is off the road even for a day, two homes are affected.”
Singh is from Uttar Pradesh while Jadhav is a Maharashtrian and the owner of the taxi which Singh drives in Mumbai.
The violence in the city indirectly claimed the life of a kindergarten student in Borivli. Pratham Jain (5), who was dropped home early after his school shut for the day anticipating trouble in the wake of MNS leader Raj Thackeray's arrest, was killed in a hit-and-run mishap outside his building premises.
Raj Thackeray was a die-hard fan of Amitabh. His flying solo meant the Big B had to take sides.
Raj Thackeray's admiration for Amitabh Bachchan is legendary in the Thackeray household. He used to prop up Bachchan film stills on his desk, watch Big B starrers several times over. Raj even named his son Amit. Three years ago, Bachchan was the guest of honour at the mega show Raj organised to rel
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