While Marmik, like Saamana, is officially headed by Rashmi Thackeray, Shiv Sena president and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s wife, Machkar is in charge of the Marmik ’s day-to-day operations and its content, like Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut is for Saamana. Since then, Marmik has published three more editions all along the lines of its longer-term refurbishment plans of making the weekly even more caricature-oriented and more political than before - almost like a deeper shadow of the political line that Shiv Sena’s daily mouthpiece, Saamana, takes.Īlso read: Sena-led Maharashtra coalition sweeps MLC polls, BJP set to lose stronghold NagpurĮarlier this year, Prabodhan Prakashan, the publishing company that brings out Saamana and Marmik, hired senior journalist Mukesh Machkar as the new executive editor for the Bal Thackeray-founded weekly. However, on 17 November, the caricature-focussed weekly came back to the stands with a special diamond jubilee edition and a new look.
The weekly publication turned 60 this year, but had to spend most of its diamond jubilee year away from the stands as its publication was suspended due to the lockdown, Covid crisis and the ensuing economic struggles of the press. This is the cover page of the latest edition of the all-new Marmik, a weekly started by Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray in 1960 that the party has now revamped with a new editor, new content and a special focus on cartoons and politics. The “troll” and the policeman are surrounded by logos of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
The smartphone screen framing his face says, “ Bhadotri troll (rented troll)” and the policeman is shown saying, “ Yanna shikvu changlach dhada. But, his face jutting out of a smartphone screen is that of a monster with green scabby and scaly skin, bushy brows, crooked teeth and hairy hands. Mumbai: A policeman holds a man by his neck, who seems like a regular person, wearing a nondescript blue T-shirt and trousers.
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