First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Socialist. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged asha bhosle, Balasaheb, hindustan times, Lata Mangeshkar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Maharashtrians, mubai, news, north indians, of Bal Thackeray, Prithviraj Chavan, Raj Thackeray, Sachin Tendulkar, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
He preceded M F Husain for his heavenly abode. But it is he, my former colleague, the news editor at the newspaper where I worked at the time, who I blame for Husain’s being eventually hounded out of India. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bal Thackeray, Balasaheb, bjp, Communist, Gujarat, Hindu Gods, hindustan times, M F Husain, Madhuri Dixit, news, paitings, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena
When Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar’s nephew, was made Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, I had much to say about it, both in my column which appears Wednesdays in the Mumbai edition of the Hindustan Times and on my blog here. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Balasaheb, Congress-NCP, hindustan times, Marathi asmita, news, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena-BJP, Uddhav