On August 15 last year the BJP made such a fuss about their party president Nitin Gadkari’s absence at the flag hoisting ceremony in their party headquarters in New Delhi. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Arun Jaitley, Bal Thackeray, bjp, Congress, Flag Code, flag hoisting, Gandhian socialism, hindustan times, Hubli, Kashmir, Lal Chowk, Mahatma Gandhi, Navin Jindal, New Delhi, news, Nitin Gadkari, Pramod Mahajan, Republic Day, RSS, saffron terrorism, Sushma Swaraj, Swami Aseemananda, tiranga yatra, Uma Bharti, Vidhan Sabha
So much is being made of the mobile number portability introduced in India this week and a lot is being said about the consumer, now, finally being king. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 21, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bombay police, caller, Calls, consumer, fashion, goons, Hindustantimes, love, mobile phones, nonsense callers, number portability, petrol pumps, Sujata Anandan, telecom industries
Rahul Gandhi was not far wrong when he said earlier this week that compulsions of coalition politics were keeping food prices and inflation up. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, capitalism, Coalition, Deve Gowda, food prices, Gandhi-Nehrus, inflation, Manmohan Singh, National Democratic Alliance, politics, Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, union agriculture minister, United Democratic Front
When Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar’s nephew, was made Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, I had much to say about it, both in my column which appears Wednesdays in the Mumbai edition of the Hindustan Times and on my blog here. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Balasaheb, Congress-NCP, hindustan times, Marathi asmita, news, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena-BJP, Uddhav