Parivar, party, and the quest for power

Cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, whose acrimonious split two decades ago had led to a change in the dynamics of regional politics in Maharashtra, have reunited. Their combining forces on the 60-year-old Marathi manoos plank, after two decades of public expressions of distrust is significant against the backdrop of the upcoming elections to the municipal corporation, finds Vinaya Deshpande Pandit