Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳

It was a roller-coaster ride, but I managed to launch three books this year and start work on a fourth #TheBawlaMurderCase #ThackerayBhau #BalasahebAaniShivSenechaPravaas @HarperCollinsIN @swatichopra1 @jilpanz @RajkamalBooks @theBookwalla @satya_nirupam @Storytel_In #Bye2021

In 1975, Prime Minister #IndiraGandhi declared the #Emergency to counter an increasingly belligerent opposition led by Jayaprakash Narayan. In #Maharashtra, the #ShivSena came under intense pressure to support the Emergency after rising demands for a ban on the party. Barrister…

The @IndianExpress on my #book #TheBawlaMurderCase as a work of #truecrime Truth, blood and broken systems: 5 true-crime books that explore India’s darkest cases indianexpress.com/article/books-… via @IndianExpress #books #book #reading #readinglist @HarperCollinsIN @HarperCollins

The @IndianExpress on my #book #TheBawlaMurderCase as a work of #truecrime Truth, blood and broken systems: 5 true-crime books that explore India’s darkest cases indianexpress.com/article/books-… via @IndianExpress #books #book #reading #readinglist

श्री मंगेश महारुद्र प्रसन्न ओम नमः शिवाय #मंगेशी

“Senior coalition leaders indicated that the next nominee may be a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close circle, with the political acumen required to manage proceedings in the Rajya Sabha”- thehindu.com/news/national/…

A cartoon by #ShivSena supremo #BalThackeray on how convent schools were resisting teaching #Marathi to their students. It appeared in #Marmik, yhe cartoon weekly that had catalysed the launch of the Sena in 1966. #Maharashtra #Mumbai #Hindi #English #HindiImposition #NEP…

The samadhi of Brahmarshi Annasaheb Patwardhan, who was the guru of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak and a mentor to several underground workers and revolutionaries like the wrestler Damodar Balwant Bhide aka Bhatji. Annasaheb was a doctor and lawyer and had hatched a plan to…

Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak led a movement seeking prohibition and joined hands with Christian padres and Muslim religious leaders. Tilak’s followers would picket liquor shops and ‘dissuade’ those who came there to drink. The police would arrest these picketers and present them…

Lokmanya Tilak’s wife Satyabhamabai passed away at Pune in June 1912 when he was jailed at Mandalay. Tilak had stoically borne the weight of his incarceration in far-away Burma (Myanmar) but felt crushed at the news of his wife’s demise. As he wrote to his children later: “It is…

Shivram Mahadev aka Shivrampant Paranjape (left) with Lokmanya Tilak. Paranjape was the editor of the Marathi newspaper 'Kaal' (काळ). Though he was associated with Tilak, his ideas, speeches, and writings were considered to be more upfront and aggressive than those of the…

For those interested, in a CBSE text book we now have a chapter of 22 pages on the Marathas. This is in the Std VIII text book of Social Sciences. A quote 'In effect, the British took India from the Marathas more than from the Mughals or any other power'. A few excerpts from…

Lokmanya Tilak and his ‘Kesari’: Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar and Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi launched the 'Kesari' newspaper on this day at Pune in 1881. The newspaper created history by taking on the colonial regime. In the…

The first biography of #LokmanyaTilak 'Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak yanche 50 varshanche charitra' was written by Krishnaji Abaji Guruji in 1906. Guruji was an interesting character. Originally from Satara district, he was employed with the public works department and was posted…

A rare piece of history: On 13 June 1948, Bal Thackeray, a cartoonist, married Sarala Vaidya. This is a copy of their wedding invite signed by his father, the social reformer, activist and journalist ‘Prabodhankar’ Keshav Sitaram Thackeray. The wedding took place at their then…