I have rarely heard a wittier line from a Congressman. Read more

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For first time in my life, ever, I felt sorry for L K Advani. The elder ’statesman’ of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who has done more for his party than any other leader, including Narendra Modi, does not even have a right to his own ambition? Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 23, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bharat Mata, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, Jain havala scam, LK Advani, Mohan Bhagwat, Nagpur, Narendra Modi, parliament, Prime Minister, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Race Course Road, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, yatra
Oye! I always knew it cost the nation a lot to keep Mahatma Gandhi poor during his lifetime. But what I did not know was that it would cost tax payers Rs Six crore to keep Narendra Modi hungry — for just three days in air-conditioned ‘discomfort’! Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Adi Shankaracharya, Gujarat government, Gujarat riots, hindustan times, Hungry Bird, LK Advani, Mahatma Gandhi, Narendra Modi, news, Sujata Anandan
Now this is one rath yatra I would really like to see – the last time that Lal Krishna Advani sailed through my part of the country on his chariot, he left behind a trail of blood and gore and the kind of communal carnage that was repeated only in Gujarat again, nearly a decade later, without even the benefit of a rath. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 9, 2011 at 6:09 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Amar Singh, BS Yedyurappa, chariot, communal carnage, corruption, hidnustan times, Lal Krishna Advani, news, Nitin Gadkari, rath yatra, Reddy brothers, Sujata Anandan, Suresh Kalmadi, yatra