A former political cartoonist who founded the Maharashtra-based Shiv Sena party, Thackeray was known for championing the rights of Mumbai’s “sons of the soil” and his campaign against immigrants from outside the state. Ironically, Siddiqui is one such immigrant, coming to India’s richest city from a small town in Uttar Pradesh. Siddiqui spoke to Reuters … Continue reading Why Nawazuddin Siddiqui doesn’t have an ideology