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[19 Feb 2008 | 103 Comments | 703 views]
There is a “राष्ट्र” in “महाराष्ट्र”…

…but there is no मराठी in there.
This was the thrust of a discussion I had with a group of Maharashtrian professionals earlier this month when the “Maharashtra saga” was just beginning to unfold. See some of the slides here (CAUTION: 800k download: A Question of Identity).
Then Anil Sharma-ji of Freedom Team alerted me to this article by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (“His freedoms and ours”, Feb 18) which I felt best captured my thoughts on the going-ons in “Aamchi Mumbai” (excerpts below; emphasis mine).
“…Thackeray deserves all the blame he is getting. But …