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
Years ago, I gave up traveling by train on the Calcutta-Bombay route during the first ten days of December. With the winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly generally held in the first few weeks of the last month of each year, I discovered there was no safety on any train on the route headed towards Bombay from December 1 to 6 and in the reverse direction until up to about December 10 or 11. Read more
(10 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:45 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bombay, Chaityabhoomi, Dalits, Dr B R Ambedkar, Prevention of Atrocities against the Scheduled Caste Act, Shiv Sena, Sujata Anandan
Long ago, at college in Nagpur, I had a friend -very smart, very stylish, very attractive and, of course, very brave. It was from her that I learnt never to have any holy cows in life but at that age I thought she carried both her profanity and irreverence towards people, situations and also social mores a bit too far. Read more
(14 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 28, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Aamir Khan, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Bigg Boss, Dalits, DK Bose, Nagpur, Prickly Pears, Raj Thackeray, Sujata Anandan, Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray
