Dear Raj...

Fri, 07 September 2012

12:06

Rajdeep Sardesai's open letter to MNS chief Raj Thackeray...

When you set up the MNS a few years ago, I thought you were aiming to break with the past: to represent a new, self-confident Maharashtrian identity that would co-exist with growing economic competition. Unfortunately, you have chosen to revive an ugly parochialism which is premised on insecurity and anger towards the "other".

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