Hindustan Times
“See!” my sister said, with a good deal of satisfaction that she had proved her point. “That is why I have been telling you for months that Raj Thackeray is right when he says locals should have first priority at jobs in their own home states. What is your reaction all about now if not a little leaf out of Raj Thackeray’s book?” Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bombay, Chinese damsels, Chinese workers, Diwali, hindustan times, Raj Thackeray
On a television programme last week that was debating the controversy over the use of the term ‘Bombay’ by Karan Johar in his film Wake up, Sid and his apology to Raj Thackeray, I said I steadfastly refuse to call the city that has been my karmabhoomi anything but ‘Bombay’. Read more
(8 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bombay, Karan Johar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mumbai Scottish or Bombay Dyeing, north indian, Raj Thackeray
Some years ago, when I did not know Suresh Kalmadi at all but was invited to a party he was throwing at a five-star hotel in Bombay, I was not too sure if I would make it – or if I would be comfortable in case I did.
But then I decided to attend, for it would have been churlish to refuse. I went on my own, however, – rather tentatively, without an ‘accompaniment’ as some would say — for I could not but help remember the two occasions when I invited someone to similar parties by politicians and shuddered at what had transpired. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 11, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bombay, Canadian, Digvijay Khanvilkar, etiquette, film makers, five-star hotel, Indian Red Cross society, Murli Deora, politicians, Sunil Dutt, Taj Gateway, tinsel town
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
