I served on the advisory council of the Censor Board for a term in the mid-2000s and I must say the experience was very interesting. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 1, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Dracula, film makers, Gujarat riots, Hindustantimes, kamal haasan, movies, movies banned, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, vishwaroopam
Yashwant Sinha had called the day a defining moment in Indian history. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ayodhya, Babri Masjid, Godhra train burning, Gujarat riots, hindustan times, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, VHP, Vinod Sharma, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Yashwant Sinha
Oye! I always knew it cost the nation a lot to keep Mahatma Gandhi poor during his lifetime. But what I did not know was that it would cost tax payers Rs Six crore to keep Narendra Modi hungry — for just three days in air-conditioned ‘discomfort’! Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged Adi Shankaracharya, Gujarat government, Gujarat riots, hindustan times, Hungry Bird, LK Advani, Mahatma Gandhi, Narendra Modi, news, Sujata Anandan
There was a particularly bounteously placed functionary in the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra, today highly placed in New Delhi, who once called in a carpenter to make a concealed safe within a bedroom wall. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, bombay high court, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gujarat riots, Joint Parliamentary Committee, JPC, kapil sibal, Leader of Opposition, minister of state for urban development, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Raj Purohit, Shiv Sena, Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister, Union Rural Development Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh