... there, Vikram Doctor. Pasting an excerpt that gets the crux : And it is here, I have to say, that Maharashtrian food has often lost out thanks to the disinterest of its restaurateurs in really promoting it. ... of hungry visitors who it could have profited from. I don’t need to add anything about Maharashtrian entrepreneurship — all I want to say has been said by Pu. La. Deshpande in ...

... ;s third largest state by area and second largest by population. Maharashtrian cuisine covers a range from being mild to very spicy dishes. ... vegetables, lentils and fruit form important components of Maharashtrian diet. Popular dishes include puran poli, ukdiche ... is considered ill mannered to use left hand while eating. Maharashtrian Snacks Snacks have been an important part of the food routine ...

By John Cheeran Now that Shiv Sena finds Sunil Manohar Gavaskar 'a true Maharashtrian' compared to Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, will the original little master, who writes ... for one match." Raut adds: "In this context, Gavaskar is a genuine 'Maharashtrian' and the whole country loves him even now in the same way. Players like Sachin have become rich because of game of cricket ...

Bal Thackrey and his Sainiks seem to have gone crazy. In the first round they were thrashed, not by Sachin’s bat but by the million admirers of his willow and those who do not like to Sachin to be lost from the center stage of a national icon to the green-room of Marathi politics. And now these guys have come up with another salvo. The first thing I feel about Sachin is that he is a super- ...

... being an Indian is enough till I saw people being killed and ousted for not being Maharashtrian and contributing 'appropriately' for the cause of Maratha culture. But ... an Indian. Kindly get me a proselytiser who can certifiably convert me to be a Maratha or a Maharashtrian. At least I will belong to someone who would consider me his own. My broader Rashtra is lost in a shrunk Maharashtra.

A nice column on the Marathi Hindi issue. As a non Maharashtrian, who can read, write, understand and converse in Marathi, I could be someone Raj could extol as a Mumbai citizen. (Apart from that to add to my Maharashtrian credentials - I like Maharashtrian food, am an unabashed admirer of Shivaji). But then, I am also someone who someone has learnt ...