Calling him Fascist will be too simplistic

In the India International Centre (disclosure: I applied for membership and did not get it), the Left Liberals of our imperious capital must have gathered to talk about Bal Thackeray as a Fascist. In the hinterlands of our country, simplistic imported descriptions like " fascism" are rarely relevant. It might be worth trying to understand Thackeray, and the country at large, on their own terms.

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