{"id":4405,"date":"2008-12-23T04:09:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2008-12-23T04:09:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:39:01","slug":"nostalgia-for-the-bad-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/nostalgia-for-the-bad-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia For The Bad Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bal Thackeray, it turns out, remembers the Emergency fondly&#8212;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1216137\" title=\"Thackeray wants Emergency, again\">wants another one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the dude who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bal_Thackeray#Admiration_of_Hitler\" title=\"Thackeray's admiration for Hitler -- Wikipedia\">once professed<\/a> his admiration for Adolf Hitler (as did his nephew <a href=\"\/raj-thackeray-and-adolf-hitler\/\" title=\"Raj Thackeray and Adolf Hitler\">recently<\/a>), so I&#8217;m not surprised. <\/p>\n<p>And in more WTF news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakaaltimes.com\/2008\/12\/17204702\/Hang-Kasab-100-times-Bal-Thac.html\" title=\"Hang Kasab 100 times: Bal Thackeray\">Thackeray has written<\/a> in an editorial in <i>Saamna<\/i> that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only 26\/11 terrorist we managed to capture alive, should be &#8220;hanged to death hundred times.&#8221; Even I want Kasab to hang, after a trial and all that, but I&#8217;d be happy if it was done once. If the dude came back to life to be &#8220;hanged to death&#8221; again, rinse-and-repeat 99 times, I&#8217;d be somewhat perturbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bal Thackeray, it turns out, remembers the Emergency fondly&#8212;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?newsid=1216137\" title=\"Thackeray wants Emergency, again\">wants another one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the dude who <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bal_Thackeray#Admiration_of_Hitler\" title=\"Thackeray's admiration for Hitler -- Wikipedia\">once professed<\/a> his admiration for Adolf Hitler (as did his nephew <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/raj-thackeray-and-adolf-hitler\/\" title=\"Raj Thackeray and Adolf Hitler\">recently<\/a>), so I&#8217;m not surprised. <\/p>\n<p>And in more WTF news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakaaltimes.com\/2008\/12\/17204702\/Hang-Kasab-100-times-Bal-Thac.html\" title=\"Hang Kasab 100 times: Bal Thackeray\">Thackeray has written<\/a> in an editorial in <i>Saamna<\/i> that Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only 26\/11 terrorist we managed to capture alive, should be &#8220;hanged to death hundred times.&#8221; Even I want Kasab to hang, after a trial and all that, but I&#8217;d be happy if it was done once. If the dude came back to life to be &#8220;hanged to death&#8221; again, rinse-and-repeat 99 times, I&#8217;d be somewhat perturbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nostalgia For The Bad Times - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/nostalgia-for-the-bad-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nostalgia For The Bad Times - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bal Thackeray, it turns out, remembers the Emergency fondly&#8212;and wants another one. 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