Photobiography of bal thakre district

Born in Pune on January 23, 1927, Bal Keshav Thackeray was brought up in a modest Marathi household in Mumbai in the 1930s and 1940s.

Mumbai has remained central to Thackeray’s personality and politics. The city’s myriad sounds and smells, its Art Deco buildings and art galleries, Irani restaurants and cricket matches, chawls and wadis, maidans and parks-all this and Mumbai’s masti constitute the sum and substance of Thackeray.

He imbibed the virtues of self-reliance and thrift at the feet of his father, Keshav Sitarm Thackeray who was firebrand social crusader.

Photobiography of bal thakre district municipality

A self-taugh artist, Bal Thackeray honed his drawing and sketching skills under masters such as Dinanath Dalal and S.M. Pandit. Walt Disney and Sir David Low have deeply influenced his craftsmanship. The 1950s saw Bal Thackeray’s meteoric rise a