Hindustan Times
It’s a forgotten memory from the not-so distant past but with the RSS much in the news today in its bid to clean up the BJP and give the party new direction, I suddenly recalled their door-to-door campaign in Maharashtra nearly a decade ago (November 2000 to be precise). Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Filed under India · Tagged bjp, criticism, door-to-door campaign, Hitler’s Brown Shirts, Maharashtra, Mohan Bhagwat, Pune, RSS
I would never have thought I would ever feel sorry, as I do now, for L K Advani. I have had reason to detest the political skullduggery of the man (see `Skeletons in Advani’s cupbard’ in the Blogrolls section on this blog) but I would never have believed that he would be so stupid as to shoot himself in the foot with his jiggery-pokery kind of politics. Read more
(8 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 28, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Arun Shourie, bjp, Brajesh Mishra, George Fernandes, Jaswant Singh, Knadhar, L K Advani, sectarian politics, Yashwant Sinha
The kinds of responses that my colleagues Pankaj Vohra, Vinod Sharma, Zia Haq and I get to our liberal-minded writings on our blogs have convinced me that cyberspace has very nearly been captured by a host of narrow-minded saffron bigots who brook no difference of opinion, who have no rational argument to contradict our eclectic approach to the issues we write about and who, therefore, use abuse and denigration in the mistaken hope and belief that that is the best form of intimidation. Read more
(9 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 21, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Filed under India · Tagged bjp, Bombay, Gopinath Munde, Maharashtra, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Pankaj Vohra, Sadhvi, Sadhvi – Uma Bharti, Subhashini Ali, Vinod Sharma, Zia Haq
While on the subject of Bal Thackeray and drinks last week, I recalled an interesting incident that happened days after the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance came to power in Maharashtra in 1995. Readers of my column ‘Anandan on Wednesday’ in the Bombay edition of the Hindustan Times will remember this for I have written about it in a different context but I thought the story was too tickling pink not to share with a wider readership. Read more
(12 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Bal Thackeray, bjp, builders, construction, hiranandani, mumbai, murli manohar joshi, shive sena
