Hindustan Times
I still recall how many people jumped on me when I described Anna Hazare as a loose cannon during his anti-corruption crusade at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi a few weeks ago. Still fewer cared for my observation that he was impressionable and wont to quicksilver changes of mind. Read more
(18 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 27, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 26/11, Anna Hazare, Ashok Chavan, Bihar, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, bjp, Congress, Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi, Jantar Mantar, Lok Ayukta, Maharashtra, Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi, Sharad Pawar, Sujata Anandan
I have never quite heard of something like this – the Deputy Chief Minister of a state not on talking terms with the Chief Minister because his lollipop was taken away, not by the CM but by a third party which was well within it’s rights to do so. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 20, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, hindustan times, lollipop, Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank, Nationalist Congress Party, news, Pranab Mukherjee, Prithviraj Chavan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
Mayawati had Kanshiram, Sheila Dixit had her father-in-law Umashankar Dixit, J Jayalalithaa had M G Ramachandran, Uma Bharti first had the patronage of Rajmata Vijay raje Scindia and later of L K Advani who she acknowledged as pita-tulya (akin to a father) and, of course, her brother standing beside her through thick and thin. Read more
(13 votes, average: 4.31 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged J Jayalalithaa, Kanshiram, L K Advani, M G Ramachandran, Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati, Nehru-Gandhi family, Rajiv Gandhi, Rajmata Vijay raje Scindia, Sheila Dixit, Sonia Gandhi, Uma Bharti, Umashankar Dixit
I have admired Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh ever since I saw him making a fool of journalists during the Nineties when he was still the Madhya Pradesh chief minister. Read more
(41 votes, average: 4.34 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 6, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ajmal Kasab, Congress, Digvijaya Singh, Hafeez Saeed, hindustan times, Lok Sabha elections, Nariman House, news, R R Patil, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Taj, the Oberoi
