Raj Thackeray - Instablogs
Raj Thackeray
Nov 22 2009, Avishek Sarkar

One of the most disadvantages and advantage of staying in a democratic world is everybody can raise their voice. A person like Raj Thackeray openly takes on the charge of laughing at Indian constitution...let’s go down memory lane and re-capitulate.

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