Hindustan Times
Some years ago then RSS chief the late K Sudershan had come up with a unique plan to combat the presumed mushrooming population of Muslims in India. Contrary to all anthropological data in the country he thought all Muslims had four wives when the fact was that it was more Hindu and Jain businessmen, rather than the comparatively poor Muslims, who had the means to afford second and third establishments had married more than once. Read more
(28 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 12:58 am
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bharat, hindustan times, India, K Sudershan, Mohan Bhagwat, news, Nikolai Ceaucescu, Romania, RSS, Sujata Anandan, women
I have always envied those among my parents’ generation who had some treasured stories about personal meetings with the legends out of history books. Read more
(19 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at 12:23 am
Filed under India · Tagged captain lakshmi sehgal, freedom, freedom fighter, history, independence, India, jabalpur, Mahatma Gandhi, netaji subhas chandra bose, Sujata Anandan
I have spent an absolutely delightful two days (and hope for some more) at the Literature Live Festival at the National Centre of Performing Arts, which has for the first time thrown its doors open to a literary festival. Read more
(8 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 4, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's Last Battle, Anil Dharker, arts, Bombay lit-fest, Dr Shashi Tharoor, hindustan times, India, India From Midnight to Millennium, Literatue Live, Literature Live Festival, National Centre of Performing Arts, Shashi Baliga, Sir Mark Tully, Sujata Anandan, The Heart Of India, United Nations
I have always been ambivalent about the clamour for a 33 per cent reservation for women in parliament that has been the subject of so much fire and opposition for years. It is my view that such reservations will help only the wives/mothers/daughters/sisters/aunts/nieces/daughters-in-law et al of men in power or even powerful men out of, well, power and wishing to keep it all in the family. Read more
(6 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 5, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Babu Jagjivan Ram, India, Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar, Pratibha Patil, Sonia Gandhi, Speaker of the Lok Sabha
