Hindustan Times
My colleague Kushalrani Gulab – Bunny – asked me in response to my blog last week what had prompted me to become a journalist. As I said in my reply to her, that had not been my intention when I started out as one nearly three decades ago. But so many years later, I realise I would rather be a journalist than anything else in the world – not even a bureaucrat or diplomat as I had intended when I took a journalism degree, essentially to learn to write for the civil services exams. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 25, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Filed under India · Tagged cricket, jairam ramesh, Journalism, Kushalrani Gulab, tennis, V P Singh
Last weekend I found myself at the Alumni Association meet of the Department of Journalism at Nagpur University. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Alumni Association, Department of Journalism, hindustan times, Nagpur University, news, Pulitzer Prize
My passport lists my place of birth as Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh. When it comes up for renewal I don’t know if I will feel comfortable calling the state where I was born `Chhatisgarh’. For my mother is not Chhatisgarhi by even a long shot; she is from Madhya Pradesh.
I have cousins who `lived’ in Uttar Pradesh. But now they are Uttaranchalis, resident in its capital of Dehradun for years, long before Uttaranchal came into existence. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bilaspur, Chhatisgarh, District Magistrate of Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh, Maharasht, Nagpur University, passport, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Vidarbha, VP Naik
Many, many moons ago, I had been to Hubli in Karnataka on a school exchange programme. I did not remember much from those times but the little that I did were memories of a small, quaint, old- fashioned traditional South Indian provincial town. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Filed under India · Tagged airport, Bombay, Delhi, Hubli, karnataka, Rajasthani culture and traditions
