Vidyadhar Date

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Rosa Parks, power of resistance and the Delhi bus rape

Rediff.com 7 Jan 2013

The nationwide protests in India have focused mainly on the issue of rape. But these could as well extend to the arena of public transport because the girl's rape and death are directly related to the inadequacy of public transport and the government's abject failure to provide basic amenities to the masses, says Vidyadhar Date

View: Thackeray, a close ally of the capitalists

Rediff.com 29 Nov 2012

'Many people are in awe of the power wielded by Thackeray. I found that even R K Laxman shared this feeling though both he and Thackeray began as cartoonists in the 1940s. "See how far ahead Thackeray has gone. And here I am," he told me one day in a sad tone,' recalls Vidyadhar Date who assesses Balasaheb Thackeray's political legacy.