Hindustan Times
Sometimes, I despair for the Shiv Sena after Bal Thackeray. Many of the party’s leaders have learnt well from the Sena supremo but I believe it is high time those who have inherited Bal Thackeray’s party unlearn all that the Sena tiger taught them and chart thir own course, for that is the only road to survival. Read more
(22 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 30, 2012 at 10:01 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Babri Masjid, Bal Thackeray, Facebook, hindustan times, news, Palghar, Sanjay Raut, Shiv Sainiks, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Uddhav Thackeray
It says much about us, in the media, that not a single newspaper, television channel or news agency, had the faintest clue that the UPA 2 government was preparing to hang 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab on November 21, five days before the fourth anniversary of the terror attack. Read more
(5 votes, average: 2.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 23, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 26/11 mumbai, Ajmal Kasab, capital punishment, Hindustantimes, Maharashtra, Singly political, Sujata Anandan
“You used to be such a good girl! What’s happened to you in the last month or so?” Bal Thackeray once asked me sometime in the mid-1990s. Read more
(26 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:45 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ayodhya, Babri Masjid, Bajrang Dal, bjp, hindustan times, Maharashtra, mumbai, news, Prabodhankar Thackeray, Raj Thackeray, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Uddhav Thackeray, VHP, Vishwa Hindu Parishad
I wonder what it is about male politicians, in India and elsewhere, that they just cannot be chivalrous about women, justifying the famous adage `male chauvinist pigs’ coined for their sex years ago at a particular international womens’ conference. Read more
(17 votes, average: 2.88 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 9, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Filed under India · Tagged abortion, Ahilya Rangnekar, hindustan times, Lord Ram, male chauvinist pigs, Margaret Thatcher, Mayawati, MCP, Mrinal Gore, Mulayam Singh, news, Pushpa Bhave, Ram Jethmalani, rape, Richard Mourdock, Sharad Pawar, Sujata Anandan, Todd Akin, women’s reservation bill
Back in those days when I was at college and Subramanian Swamy was a Havard-returned guest lecturer at our university, I remember one of our professors of political science watch the man grimly as he spoke more on economics than on politics. Read more
(94 votes, average: 2.35 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 2, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Congress, hindustan times, Janata Party, news, Rahul Gandhi, Ram Jethmalani, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, RSS, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Subramanian Swamy, Sujata Anandan
