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
I was yet at college when Mrs Indira Gandhi split the Congress to form her own faction of the party. The Congress symbol of cow and calf, which until then had probably been very popular, got permanently frozen. She chose the ‘Hand’ instead. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Communist, Congress, cow and calf, Dr Shrikant Jichkar, hammer and sickle, hand, Indian politics, Indira Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, ndira Gandhi, OP Jindal, professor, Rajesh Pilot, Rajiv Gandhi, symbol, YS Rajashekhara Reddy