I never could understand what Sathya Sai Baba was all about and I could never bring myself to believe in his jugglery. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 29, 2011 at 7:49 pm
Filed under India · Tagged brother-in-law, cancer, god man, hindustan times, Mahakali Caves, Marine Drive, miracles, miraculous recovery, Nariman Point, news, Puttaparthi, Sathya Sai Baba
I must say a new respect has dawned in my heart for noted lawyer Mahesh Jethmalani. He was candid enough to admit that if any of the ministers in the Jan Lokpal Committee had to have been caught out in various acts like the Bhushan father-and-son duo have been, he would have been baying for their blood. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 22, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Adarsh scam, Amar Singh, Ashok Chavan, Bhushan, Bhushans, bjp, CBI, Congress, DMK, Enforcement Direcotrate, Jan Lokpal Bill, Jan Lokpal Committee, Mahesh Jethmalani, niira radia, Nitin Gadkari, Sharad Pawar, Vir Sanghvi, Yedyurappa
Sometime during the 1990s, Sharad Pawar was caught in a situation where he just could not get it right. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Baramati, Bombay riots, CBI, Central Bureau of Investigation, corruption, Dawood Ibrahim, DB Realty, Dynamix dairy, havala, Hitendra Thakur, Justice Srikrishna, Maharashtra, Manohar Joshi, niira radia, Pappu Kalani, Shahid Balwa, Sharad Pawar, Sudhakarrao Naik
Why am I not so impressed with the hoopla surrounding Anna Hazare and his fast unto death at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi? Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Bal Thackeray, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Jantar Mantar, Lokpal bill, Maharashtra, NCP, New Delhi, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Smita Prakash, Uma Bharti
It would have happened sooner rather than later. But Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party was prepared for this one. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 8:06 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress-NCP government, Dilip Deshmukh, Eknath Khadse, Gopinath Munde, Jayant Patil, Maharashtra Assembly, Nationalist Congress Party, Nitin Gadkari, Praful Patel, R R Patil, Shahid Balwa, Sharad Pawar, Shashank Manohar, Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, Vilasrao Deshmukh