The Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar is profoundly shocked by the death of Bal Thackeray.
Says the concerned songstress, “I will tell you something very honestly. <em>Bala Saheb Thackeray they toh Maharashtra tha. Woh nahin to kuch nahin hai</em>. No one can equal what he has done for Maharashtra. We needed him to be with us for many more years. Look at the kind of turn-out his illness invited at his home Matoshree! He had a knack for forging enduring relations with people. It’s indeed a very rare gift he had. And his gift of oration! Oh, My God! <em>Bahut kamaal ke insaan they</em>.”