“If Mr. Thackeray did not have the remote control, he would have to be chief minister and sit in Mantralaya, which he has repeatedly said he does not want to do. Now, he can have his TV and watch it.”
"Who's this Raj Thackeray, is he the big man?" "Well, I don't know exactly," said the agent. "But I am told his uncle is a big man and always packs a remote control on him..."
"Remember Thackeray, he was so timid that if the chair moved under him, he would get scared."
'I remember him as a quiet, soft-spoken gentleman, a little timid, sad-eyed, peering at the world through large glasses. There was something very melancholic about him'
'The other day, I had gone to interview Mr. Bal Thackeray...The equivalent would be my meeting Jawaharlal Nehru in my time'
Mr. Thackeray, of course, was never humble, not even in his days as cartoonist at 21, Dalal Street
First published on March 16, 1988: “Jai Maharashtra, it was a very successful bandh. Since the Sena had decided to boycott the bandh, we managed to keep 90 per cent of Mumbai open.”
'Either behind that timid front a volcano had been raging, or everything that happened afterwards happened by chance and accident'
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