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

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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
Now that Team Anna is contemplating forming a political party, I wonder why Anna Hazare had to go as far as New Delhi to look for a clean government. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 3, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Albert Camus, Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Congress, hindustan times, IAC, India Against Corruption, Kiran Bedi, Lok Sabha, Nationalist Congress Party, news, Prithviraj Chavan, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Team Anna
I was shocked the other day to hear Mani Shankar Aiyar of the Congress describe Anna Hazare as a Frankenstein’s monster. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 23, 2011 at 9:00 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Bal Thakeray, bjp, bombay high court, Congress, hindustan times, India Against Corruption, Lokpal bill, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority, news, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Team Anna, UPA