Seven performers, some of them visually-impaired, enthralled viewers at India House with their strength, flexibility on a wooden pole & rope, under watchful eyes of Uday Deshpande.
Shivaji Park, which Sena (UBT) has secured again for Dussehra rally, is deeply intertwined with party's past & Bal Thackeray's legacy, with broader significance for politics & culture.
Both groups applied to hold the rally this year, trying to lay claim on the party’s annual show of strength since its inception in 1966; but the civic body fears law and order disruption.
Uddhav-led Sena faction fears that the Shinde-led govt may try to use its power to deny them permission to use the ground for its iconic Dussehra rally. All eyes are now on BMC.
In letter written last year, RSS says BMC allotted a 1,755-square-metre plot at Shivaji Park, near the area where Thackeray’s memorial now stands, to the organisation in 1967.
It was Mumbai's Shivaji Park where Sena founder Bal Thackeray addressed first public rally in 1966, Raj Thackeray held first MNS rally & Aaditya took over Yuva Sena.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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