L20-Vulenerable Groups

Remembering Mr  Bal Thackeray in his centenary  https://www.facebook.com/vidyadhar.date/posts/10164245155088641   Vidyadhar Date Jan 27, 2026       There are also serious problems with sections  of our upper class  which openly backed his  most undemocratic  functioning because  secretly it never is happy with democracy , it believes in the personality cult.       Mr Thackeray was in an open alliance with capitalists and was an admirer of  five star culture which he always glorified, his unions   openly indulged in corruption, many personnel managers will confirm that  and  they  worked to  attack democracy and  left wing politics. 
 Mr Thackeray  once asked Marathi people to  become entrepreneurs, open five star hotels...   Even more damaging than the  culture of violence against  democratic forces that   he brought in, was  the  lowering of   political culture to very low depths in terms of   language,  ethics  , contempt for  serious, democratic values and so on.
     Like any personality, Mr Thackeray had his plus points, he  was a good cartoonist,had a sense of humour.  He  gave  a sense of identity to   Marathi people, raised voice against  discrimination against  Marathi manoos in  jobs, this was a fact, there was  discrimination, I could see that in the 1960s.
      The linguistic identity  is important in the current context of   imposition of   false ideas in the name of nationalism....
  Regional  politics   as in Tamil Nadu was much more progressive. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin announced in April 2025 that a statue of communist ideologue Karl Marx will be installed in Chennai to honor his contributions to labor rights and socialist philosophy. The statue is planned for the entrance of the Connemara Public Library, celebrating Chennai's history as a labor hub.