Born in Pune on January 23, 1927, Bal Keshav Thackeray was brought up in a modest Marathi household in Mumbai in the 1930s and 1940s. Mumbai has remained central to Thackeray’s personality and politics. The city’s myriad sounds and smells, its Art Deco buildings and art galleries, Irani restaurants and cricket matches, chawls and wadis, maidans and parks-all this and Mumbai’s masti constitute the sum and ...
