Hindustan Times
When I first met Kanshi Ram as a rookie journalist, he had just founded the Bahujan Samaj Party. It was election time in the 1980s and he had no hope in hell of winning even a single seat, despite his sharp focus on Dalit welfare in the country. Read more
(18 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 19, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Anjali Damania, Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Bahujan Samaj Party, Dalits, hindustan times, India Against Corruption, Kanshi Ram, Kiran Bedi, Lavasa, Manoj Sisodia, Mayawati, news, Nitin Gadkari, Rahul Gandhi, Ram Jethmalani, Salman Khurhsid, Singly political, Sujata Anandan
Now that Team Anna is contemplating forming a political party, I wonder why Anna Hazare had to go as far as New Delhi to look for a clean government. Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.1 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 3, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Albert Camus, Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Congress, hindustan times, IAC, India Against Corruption, Kiran Bedi, Lok Sabha, Nationalist Congress Party, news, Prithviraj Chavan, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Team Anna
I was amused to see Team Anna draw flak this week from two leaders quite on the opposite sides of the spectrum: Sonia Gandhi and Nitish Kumar. While Sonia, whose speech was read out in absentia at a rally in Uttarakhand, seemed quite impatient with the frequent noises being made by the team members, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was simply – and justifiably – peeved at the tendency of the team members to think only they are right and everybody else who has his or her own mind is corrupt. Read more
(20 votes, average: 3.2 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Hind Swaraj Trust, hindustan times, Justice PB Samant Commission, Kanimozhi, Kiran Bedi, news, Nitish Kumar, Raju Parulekar, Sonia Gandhi, sujatan anandan, Team Anna
Now what did I say about Anna Hazare? That he is a loose canon? That he always makes statements and then retracts them? That he adopts positions and then goes back on them? That he never fails to leave his backers with a sense of being let down? Read more
(11 votes, average: 3.09 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Bal Thackeray, Congress, hindustan times, Kiran Bedi, Matoshree, news, Prashant Bhushan, Rashtriya Swayamsevak, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, UPA
