The man was a leader of goons but as a journalist who worked with him in his early days at the Free Press Journal once said "he trembles when the chair he is sitting on, moves".
Man for man, his followers lacked the courage to fight, unlike Shivaji's Marathas after whom they styled themselves. They found strength only in large mobs. I was witness to that. When I lived in Byculla, in the early days of the Shiv Sena, a group of Sainiks came into the lane below my building to attack an unarmed Muslim who was walking about alone, during a Shiv Sena hartal (shut-down or strike). 15 people were beating and stabbing him. With a yell, out came three butchers from the meat shops, running towards the group with large, mean looking choppers. Those 15 ran for their lives as if they had seen the devil and didn't like what they saw. Three against fifteen. Great courage, this. Roland. Toronto. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Goanet Reader Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:31 AM To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! Subject: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Inconvenient Truths about Bal Thackerey Inconvenient Truths Inconvenient Truths about Bal Thackerey. Not Quite a Nationalist Hero By Sunny SIngh http://sunnysinghonline.blogspot.in/ As many desi tweeple are too young to remember the pre-1990 days, that was a summary of Thackerey's 'career' * My purpose for #inconvenienttruths tweets was simple: a man who hated +terrorised so many different kinds of Indians is no nationalist hero
