Marmik meaning: [Straight from the heart] is an Indian weekly published by the Shiv Sena from Mumbai, until publication of its daily Saamana it was Shiv Sena's organ.
Bal Thackeray, worked as a cartoonist for the 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.