The Election Commission of India allotted a new election symbol — tutari vajavnara manus — to the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party. Marathi movies produced since the 1950s and ’60s, for instance, liberally used the tutari to tell the story of Chhatrapati Shivaji and the history of Maratha conquests. In the last two decades, other political parties, …
