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Bal Thackerays tribute to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (published in Marmik ) after she was assassinated in October 1984 .

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Lotus Collection

Vaibhav Purandare, 2012

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First published in 2012

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Cover picture Getty Images

Cover design: Shrabani Dasgupta

Layout: Sanjeev Mathpal

Production: Shaji Sahadevan

Frontispiece , i : A note of appreciation from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for the young cartoonist Bal Thackeray, 1960.

Typeset in Bembo by Roli Books Pvt Ltd, and printed at HT Media, India.

In memory of

Suryakant Chemburkar,

my grandfather.

A young Bal Thackeray at work, before he had formed the Shiv Sena. Thackeray said a cartoonist needed to have intimate knowledge of human anatomy in order to be good.

Thackeray addressing a Shiv Sena rally in the 1960s, with the Sena symbol, a growling tiger, in the background.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray tries his hand at a game of Cricket.

Bal Thackeray with Meenatai and Kishore Kumar.

By using the name of Chhatrapati Shivaji, Thackeray evoked the memory of the Maratha warrior tradition and thereby converted the Shiv Sena into a militant outfit.

One of Bal Thackerays cartoons in the Free Press Journal on the duplicitous role of colonial rulers. He drew many cartoons on international affairs at the FPJ, depicting personalities such as Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.

The Thackeray family: (Standing from L to R) Jaidev (Thackerays estranged son), his wife Smita (since separated), Madhavi (wife of Thackerays eldest son Bindumadhav), Bindumadhav, Uddhav and Rashmi (Uddhavs wife).
(Seated) Bindumadhavs children Neha and Nihar, Bal Thackeray, Uddhavs
son Aditya, Jaidevs son Rahul and Meenatai Thackeray.

Thackeray and his grandchildren with Michael Jackson at the Thackerays residence, Matoshree, in 1996.

Bhendi Bazaars Muslims meet Bal Thackeray at Matoshree, after his wife Meenatai Thackerays demise.

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