Vivekanand Education Society’s
Institute of Technology
Hashu Advani Memorial Complex, Collectors Colony,
Chembur, Mumbai 400074
"Tributes to the great Balasaheb Thackeray on his Jayanti.
Courageous and indomitable, he never hesitated from raising
issues of public welfare."
A charismatic and powerful leader, Balasaheb Thackeray began his career as a
cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Mumbai, and his cartoons were also published
in the Sunday edition of The Times of India.
Balasaheb was inspired by his father Keshav Thackeray, who was a journalist and
cartoonist by profession. He was an integral part of the ‘Samyukta Maharashtra’ movement that
advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state of Maharashtra.
In 1960, Balasaheb launched the cartoon weekly 'Marmik' with his brother.
Following the footsteps of his father, he founded Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in 1966.
Thackeray used to say that the Shiv Sena was not a political party, but an army of Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj.