''Mahanagar'' ("Metropolis") is a

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and

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newspaper published from

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

, India. The Marathi version ''Aapla Mahanagar'' ("Our metropolis") was founded by Nikhil Wagle in January 1990; the Hindi version ''Hamara Mahanagar'' was established in 1982. Sanjay Bhaskar Sawant is now editor & publisher of Aapla Mahanagar & mymahanagar.com Nikhil Wagle was physically attacked by

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

supporters multiple times for his critical remarks against the party and its leaders. In 1994, Wagle was imprisoned for a week after he criticized the Maharashtra legislators for paying fawning tributes to a deceased MLA accused of having criminal connections. On 19 June 2018, Digital web platform name
mymahanagar.com
was started, which seems to be a part of modernizing effort by the group to reach masses.

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