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'''''Marmik''''' ([[Marathi language|Marathi]]: मार्मिक ''Mārmik'') meaning: [Straight from the heart/A silent word that goes directly to the Heart] <ref name="Prakash2011">{{cite book|author=Gyan Prakash|title=Mumbai Fables|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TeRWxaJLoDUC&pg=PA247|accessdate=18 February 2012|date=26 October 2011|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-15317-9|pages=247–}}</ref> is an Indian weekly published by the [[Shiv Sena]] from [[Mumbai]], until publication of its daily ''[[Saamana]]'' it was Shiv Sena's organ.<ref name="Prakash2011"/><ref name="Hansen2001">{{cite book|author=Thomas Blom Hansen|title=Wages of violence: naming and identity in postcolonial Bombay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-y3iNt0djbQC&pg=PA49|accessdate=18 February 2012|year=2001|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-08840-2|pages=49–}}</ref> It is seen as the frontrunner or launchpad for the [[Shiv Sena]] party.<ref name="Bal Thackeray's launch pad: Marmik">{{cite web | url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/bal-thackerays-launch-pad-marmik/1032479/ | title=Bal Thackeray's launch pad: Marmik | publisher=The Indian Express | work=Sruti Shukla | date=17 November 2012 | accessdate=31 March 2020}}</ref> It focused on issues of common Marathi man or Maratha Manoos including unemployment, influx of migrant, retrenchment of Marathi workers and its office in Ranade Road became the rallying point for Marathi youth. It was Marmik issue on 5 June 1966 which first announced the launch of membership for the [[Shiv Sena]].<ref name="Kulkarni2019">{{cite book|author=Dhaval Kulkarni|title=The Cousins Thackeray: Uddhav, Raj and the Shadow of their Senas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qguwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42|accessdate=31 March 2020|date=10 September 2019|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-647-6|pages=42–}}</ref><ref name="Purandare2013">{{cite book|author=Vaibhav Purandare|title=Bal Thackeray and the rise of Shiv Sena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JS1hBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30|accessdate=31 March 2020|date=27 February 2013|publisher=Roli Books Private Limited|isbn=978-81-7436-991-8|pages=30–}}</ref> [[Bal Thackeray]] later stated "that not just a cartoon weekly but also the prime reason for the birth and growth of the Sena.".<ref name="Bal Thackeray's launch pad: Marmik"/>

[[Bal Thackeray]], started as a cartoonist for The Free Press Journal. In 1960 when he was 34, he quit his job and started ''Marmik''. He was joined by his younger brother Shrikant Thackeray.<ref name="Prakash2011"/> It was launched on 13 August 1960  and it was inaugurated by the then Maharashtra chief Minister [[Yashwantrao Chavan]]. Bal Thakre's cartoons used to be published in ''Marmik''. It basically mock maharashtra government policies and raise unemployment issue.