I am frankly sick and tired of the entire Anna Hazare melodrama. It is apparent to me and many of us from Anna’s home state, even if not to others who see in him a great saviour and a second Mahatma Gandhi, what is happening at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 26, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, hindustan times, kapil sibal, Mahatma Gandhi, news, P Chidambaram, Ramlila Maidan, Sharad Pawar, Sujata Anandan, Team Anna, telecom minister, UPA government, Vilasrao Deshmukh and Sushil Kumar Shinde
For the first time ever, I have found myself agreeing with a BJP leader. When Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s troubles came from the fact that he was being advised by far too many lawyers, he unerringly hit the nail on the head. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 19, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Filed under India · Tagged A Raja, Anna Hazare, Arun Jaitley, bjp, british, Chidambaram, Congress, Dandi March, Digvijay Singh, Ganga, Hindustantimes, Jan Lokpal Bill, Kanimozhi, Kiran Bedi, Lokpal bill, Mahatma Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Rajya Sabha, Ramdev Baba, Ramlila Maidan, Right to Information, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Suresh Kalmadi, Swami Nigamananda, UPA
“Pull the cops off the streets of Bombay for just one day,” the late Pramod Navalkar, Shiv Sena leader, had once told me, “and see the mayhem that will overpower not just the city but Maharashtra and the entire country. Firm policing is why you and I can walk the streets fearlessly and sleep easy at night.” Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 12, 2011 at 7:12 pm
Filed under India · Tagged AR Antulay, Bombay, British Police, Colaba, David Cameron, god, London, London Met police, Maharashtra, Nasik, Pramod Navalkar, Shiv Sena, Sujata Anandan, UK riots
Recently I ran into a friend of union minister for science and technology Vilasrao Deshmukh who told me the latter had been quite incensed with his recent cabinet colleague Gurudas Kamat. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 5, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 26/11, B S Yedyurappa, bjp, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gurudas Kamat, Hindustantimes, karnataka, Maharashtra, Manmohan Singh, MCA, Milind Deora, Mukul Wasnik, Mumbai Cricket Association, Murli Deora, NDA, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh