Bal Thackeray is a nutcase.

I find it more funny than disgusting, that the setting and extinguished sun named Bal Thackeray tried to go an extra mile by using Sachin's name and got badly backfired.

People are anyway publicly opposing Raj Thackeray and it is known to all that his end is near (though, this is too late, but better late than never), his uncle tried going the nephew's way, something he has been doing for decades, but seemed to have given the power of attorney to the nephew recently.

I'd actually appreciate Sachin for making the statement about Mumbai belonging to the whole India. It was his statement that provoked Bal Thackeray to cross the limits of stupidity and chauvinism; and to make a fool out of himself. Leave alone the ruling Congress, even BJP is coming in public to criticize Thackeray, accompanied by the likes of Laloo, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar etc., who obviously didn't miss the opportunity of scoring a six on a loose ball outside the off stump.

MNS has already cornered Shiv Sena by making idiotic statements and abusing North Indians (which I strongly condemn), it seems that the uncle and the nephew are running in the race towards winning the title of THE BIGGEST FOOL.

Instead of exhibiting the false and fake Marathi pride, Bal Thackeray should have supported Sachin and opened a front against his nephew, by doing so; he could have earned some respect as well as some satisfaction of paying the tribute to the country off late; and could have managed to salvage the little pride; he had that has almost vanished by now.

But again, he had to maintain his stance of anti India (and less of Marathism), to hog the limelight, he had to carry the false ego, or rather he had to stick to the mistakes done in the past.

I'd say, it's all about the inability to accept your own fault. Bal Thackeray probably does not have guts to do something that Sachin has done, and that's why he's shouting against the person whose opinions do carry weight.

I'm not trying to make the point that Sachin is patriot, he's a nice cricketer, and he has his insight right, unlike the Thackeray duo, who rather than keeping their ugly mouths shut, are shouting and desperately trying to divide the country. Sachin at least felt the other way, and took a tiny step towards unity of the country.

As I've mentioned earlier, Amitabh Bachchan has disappointed people by bowing to the monster (Raj Thackeray); at least Sachin has done the right thing, and probably shown us a face of a true Indian-Marathi, and not an anti Indian-Marathi.

Bravo, Sachin, you're on the right track.