Abhijeet Dipke and Maharastrian legacy*
The Cockroach Janta Party was founded by Dipke online, after the infamous CJI Surya Kant's insensitive reference to unemployed students as cockroaches. The CJI's role in history will never be for his contributions as a judge( which is in itself questionable) but for this quote. In a way he , in history, may be one of the founding fathers of CJP!!! Coming back to Dipke. A Maharastrian. One cannot but recollect Tilak , Gokhale and Ambedkar, three Marathi stalwarts of Indian independence. They ignited the consciousness of the then Bharat of many fiefdoms, a land mass without a boundary, ruled for ages by monarchs of all faiths. Ignited it and made it realise what freedom was. Gandhi then gave it mass appeal. Rest is history. Can we then look at Dipke, the modern Marathi manus ( inspite of the facts he is in US of A now, but then so was Gandhi, Nehru too, both educated there. Gandhi worked there too) as the modern...