Shiv Sena And Its Changing Relationship With Mumbai's Muslims

Shiv Sena office at Temkar Street in south Mumbai’s Nagpada area.

Recently, I happened to pass through Temkar Street in south Mumbai’s Nagpada area and saw something which surprised me and took me twenty-five years back. At the entrance of that narrow street, there was an office of a local Shiv Sena leader. There were pictures of the party’s founder Bal Thackeray and his son Uddhav Thackeray against a saffron backdrop. There was nothing unusual about that office except that Temkar Street was once home to underworld don Chhota Shakeel before he fled