There was a particularly bounteously placed functionary in the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra, today highly placed in New Delhi, who once called in a carpenter to make a concealed safe within a bedroom wall. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, bombay high court, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gujarat riots, Joint Parliamentary Committee, JPC, kapil sibal, Leader of Opposition, minister of state for urban development, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Raj Purohit, Shiv Sena, Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister, Union Rural Development Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh
Minutes after senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani had apologised to Sonia Gandhi for falsely accusing her and her family of having Swiss bank accounts of their own, Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, had tweeted Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged apologising¸ Draupadi, Bhagat Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, Dusashan, hindustan times, L K Advani, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajguru, Rajiv Gandhi, RSS, Samajwadi Party, Sharad Pawar, Sonia Gandhi, Sukhdev, Tushar Gandhi, Valentine’s Day
President Pratibha Patil was always a Indira Gandhi loyalist. But, as far as I know (she was a family friend of a dear aunt’s), contrary to what Rajasthan ex-minister Amin Khan said recently, she never either cooked for Mrs Gandhi or washed dishes in her kitchen. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 11, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Amin Khan, Bombay, Indira Gandhi, Maharahstra Pradesh Congress Committee, Maharashtra, Maratha, Morarji Desai, Murli Deora, Najma Heptullah, President Pratibha Patil, Rajasthan, Rajya Sabha, Sharad Pawar
I really don’t know what it is about animals and politicians.
Travelling on a day train from Nagpur to Hyderabad last week, I found many of my co-passengers, who hailed from Andhra Pradesh, outraged as they unfolded their newspapers and turned to a particular item of news. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 4, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged animal rights activist, Bal Thackeray, Bombay Municipal Corporation, BS Yeddyurappa, Dogs, donkeys, hindustan times, Maneka Gandhi, news, Nitin Gadkari, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Telangana