Saffron Tunes

Radio One’s Janvalkar… Radio Mirchi’s Vaingankar… Big FM’s Gupte

Marathi Manoos at the helm of affairs in all the top Radio Stations in Mumbai… But only a T-KICK ensures that they sing to Marathi Tunes… 3M fails to understand as to why Shiv Sena took more than a decade to realise that these private FM stations are not playing Marathi Songs?

आता मटामटा...

As pointed out by a reader, Maharashtra Times also carried the Belgaum Dispute Map in yesterday's edition without acknowledgement...

Marathi Zoozoos... or is it jhoo jhoo?

Hilarious... but check out the 'minglish' punchline at the end!

... and DNA today!!!

... Sakaal and Prahaar are copycats too!

Samana uses my map without premission

As Centre rebukes Maharashtra's claim over Belgaum and other Marathi speaking in Karnataka, Shiv Sena decides to vent its ire through its mouthpiece - Samana.

Surprisingly they use the map from an earlier post on this blog (“Belgaum Border Dispute” – A Bleeding Wound) to show the disputed area... without acknowledging the source!

Bal Shivba

COMING SOON AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU!

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Bollywood's new found love for Marathi

"Not so Golden" Jubilee

In the past this blog has highlighted that Times of India tends to give a cold shoulder to “Marathi News”. As expected these guys whitewashed the Maharashtra Golden Jubilee celebrations from the first page. Not only in Mumbai Edition but also in Pune and Nagpur.

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3M would like to believe that these guys do not promote “Regionalism”… but to his surprise, the Ahmedabad Edition of TOI had “Vibrant Gujarat Golden Jubilee” on the cover page… and the headline is "At 50, ready to rival Mumbai"... Hmmm!

AHMEDABAD EDITION

MUMBAI EDITION

बहु असोत सुंदर

बहु असोत सुंदर संपन्न की महा ।
प्रिय अमुचा एक महाराष्ट्र देश हा ॥ धृ ॥

गगनभेदी गिरिविण अणू न च जिथे उणे
आकांक्षापुढती जिथे गगन ठेंगणे
अटकेवर जेथील तुरंगी जल पिणे
तेथ अडे काय जलाशया ना दावीणे
पौरुष्यासी अटक गमे जेथ दुःसहा ॥ १ ॥

विलम वैराग्य एक जागी नारती ??
जरी पटका भगवा झेंडाही डोलती
धर्म राजकारण एक समवेत चालती
शक्ति युक्ति एकवटुनी कार्य साधती
पसरे या कीर्ति अशी विस्मया वहा ॥ २ ॥

गीत मराठ्यांचे श्रवणी , मुखी असो
स्फूर्ति रिती धृति ही देत अंतरी ठसो
वचनी लेखनी ही मराठी गिरा दिसो
सतत महाराष्ट्र धर्म मर्म मनी वसो
देह पडॊ सकारणी ही असे स्पृहा ॥ ३ ॥

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