Marmik gave birth to the Shiv Sena and later the Saamana, the party’s mouthpiece, Uddhav Thackeray said, adding that Saamana editorials are taken note of “the world-over”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marmik, the weekly cartoon magazine started by Shiv Sena’s founder Balasaheb Thackeray in 1960 taught Maharashtrians “self-respect” and evolved into a movement, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking at a virtual celebration to mark the 61st anniversary of Marmik, Uddhav Thackeray said he as well as the weekly have now transformed into a new “avatar<\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Marmik completed 61 years today and I completed 61 years last month… Both of us have assumed new avatars,” he said, in an apparent reference to his becoming Maharashtra’s chief minister in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Maharashtra gained statehood with Mumbai as its capital on May 1, 1960; I was born on July 27, 1960, and Marmik was born on August 13, 1960,” Mr Thackeray said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Marmik is the torch of the Marathi manoos<\/em> and it has taught us what self-respect means,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The weekly gave birth to the Shiv Sena and later the Saamana<\/em>, the party’s mouthpiece, the chief minister said, adding that Saamana editorials are taken note of not only in Maharashtra and India but “the world-over”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His father taught him not to give up when faced with challenges, “and that’s what I am doing,” he said. Marathi people are not cowed down by challenges, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From a weekly magazine featuring cartoons, Marmik evolved into a movement that appealed to Marathi-speakers to give up salaried jobs and start businesses of their own, Mr Thackeray said.”Balasaheb Thackeray led from the front by giving up his job as a cartoonist with the Free Press Journal to start Marmik,” he added.Political cartoonist David Low was his father’s idol, Mr Thackeray reminisced.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marmik gave birth to the Shiv Sena and later the Saamana, the party’s mouthpiece, Uddhav Thackeray said, adding that Saamana editorials are taken note of “the world-over”. Marmik, the weekly cartoon magazine started by Shiv Sena’s founder Balasaheb Thackeray in 1960 taught Maharashtrians “self-respect” and evolved into a movement, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said. Speaking at a virtual celebration to mark the 61st anniversary of Marmik, Uddhav Thackeray said he as well as the weekly have now transformed into a new “avatar“. “Marmik completed 61 years today and I completed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31315,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31313\/revisions\/31315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}