For all the trolls who go from blog to blog on the Hindustan Times website and label all its editors as Congress stooges or paid journalists, I finally know where they are getting that from. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Amar Singh, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bangaru Laxman, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, BJP leaders, Bombay Congress president, bribe, cash-for-vote, Congress, hindustan times, Kripashankar Singh, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Samajwadi Party, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Sushma Swaraj
I have forgotten some of the names. But not their faces – or their stories. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 18, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged atom bomb, Atomic Dome, fukushima, hiroshima, Japan, japan quake, japan tsunami, japanese, japanese prime minister, nagasaki, Naoto Kan, radiation in japan, Sunil Dutt, world war II
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari, speaking to me in another context (of Pramod Mahajan’s troubled son Rahul), had once said, “Jaisa beej boya, vaisa hi phal paya (as you sow, so you reap).’’ Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 11, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, Bindumadhav, hindustan times, Matoshree, news, Nihar Thackeray, Nitin Gadkari, Pramod Mahajan, prostitution racket, Raj Thackeray
I did not think this would happen in my part of the world but, after the rapist politicians of Uttar Pradesh, a home-grown one seems to have arisen in Maharashtra. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Chief Minister, Dilip Wagh, hindustan times, Home Minister R R Patil, Maratha warlord, Mayawati, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, news, Padamsinh Patil, Prithviraj Chavan, rapist, Sharad Pawar, UP Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh