Hindustan Times
My friend Avinash Pande, a secretary with the All India Congress Committee, was a worried man, Wednesday night. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 28, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Filed under India · Tagged All India Congress Committee, Assam, Avinash Pande, Congress, jairam ramesh, karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Rajya Sabha, Sikh, The Prime Minister, Uttar Pradesh
I can hardly believe that it is two decades since the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Just a few days before he was killed he was campaigning in Bombay. I was working for a wire service at the time and my Bureau Chief had given me stern instructions: the then union government had withdrawn his security cover and Rajiv was a sitting duck for assassins. Read more
(41 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 21, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Filed under India · Tagged assassination, Bombay, Bombay Congress, Bureau Chief, Election Commissioner, Hindi media, Mulund, Murli Deora, Nagpada, Nehru-Gandhis, president, Rajiv Gandhi, security cover, TN Seshan
I remember I was just 12 years old and there was a caste enumeration at school. I simply did not know where I belonged. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 14, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Asian immigrants, caste enumeration, Christian, class distinction, communities, friendships, marriages, Ministry of Defence, Scheduled Caste, social mobility, urban backgrounds, Western habits
Bal Thackeray was jailed for a few days in the 1960s when Morarji Desai took on the Shiv Sena for its disruptive ways – the party had just been launched in Maharashtra and the Sena’s first protest, of course, was to join up the movement to integrate the Marathi-speaking Belgaum in Karnataka with the rest of Maharashtra. Read more
(12 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 7, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 1960s, Bal Thackeray, belgaum, Bombay, karnataka, Maharashtra, marathi, Marine Drive, Morarji Desai, Raj Thackeray, Shiv Sena
