Hindustan Times
The Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena like to believe that the Mangeshkar sisters belong to them. In fact, not just belong to them – the Thackerays believe that they own these national assets. Read more
(17 votes, average: 3.47 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 31, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Abeeda Parveen, Ajmal Kasab, Asha Bhosale, Azad Maidan¸ Vilasrao Deshmukh, Bal Thackeray, Congress, hindustan times, Lata Mangeshkar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Michael Jackson, news, Pakistan, Runa Laila, Shiv Sena, Shiv Udyog Sena, Singly political, Thackerays, UPA
When Maharashtra’s Home Minister R R Patil first mooted the transfer of Bombay’s police commissioner Arup Patnaik a day after some Muslim groups ran riot at the Azad Maidan on August 11, 2012, I am told, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told him, “If Patnaik goes, so do you”. Read more
(11 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 24, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Arup Patnaik, Azad Maidan, bjp, Gopinath Munde, hindustan times, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MNS, Mulayam Singh, mumbai, Mumbai violence, NCP, Prithviraj Chavan, R R Patil, Raj Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
A friend posted a query on my Facebook account a couple of days ago: what deal did the Shiv Sena offer the BJP to agree not to press for the post of Mayor of Bombay? Read more
(12 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 9:00 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged bjp, hhindustan times, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mayor of Bombay, MNS, NCP, Nitin Gadkari, Pune Municipal Corporation, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan
Some years ago, there was a Congress minister in Maharashtra, destined for greater heights nationally, who was caught out with a famous Bollywood actress in a hotel room in Bombay. Read more
(27 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Gopianth Munde, hindustan times, Laxman Savadi, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Raj Thackeray, Ramdev Baba, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Smita Thackeray, Sujata Anandan, Uddhav Thackeray, Valentine’s Day
It has taken ten long years, but Narendra Modi finally gets his comeuppance. And I am glad it comes out of the Gujarat high court rather than through cases shifted out of his home state which lends the judgment on the Lokayukta rather more credibility than it would otherwise have had. Read more
(42 votes, average: 2.64 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, democracy, Gujarat, hindustan times, lokayukta, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Narendra Modi, news, panchayat elections, Raj Thackeray, Sujata Anandan, Supreme Court
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a Socialist. Read more
(18 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 9, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged asha bhosle, Balasaheb, hindustan times, Lata Mangeshkar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Maharashtrians, mubai, news, north indians, of Bal Thackeray, Prithviraj Chavan, Raj Thackeray, Sachin Tendulkar, Shiv Sena, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
Speaking to a man in the know, the other week, I was rather amused to hear him describe the situation in the Nationalist Congress Party rather succinctly. Read more
(8 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 29, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Jayant Patil, Maharahstra, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MNS, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, Nitin Gadkari, Prithviraj Chavan, Raj Thackeray, RR Patil, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sujata Anandan, Supriya Sule, Uddhav Thackeray
Writing in my column ‘anandan on Wednesday’ earlier this week, I had expressed concern that Maharashtra’s new Chief Minister, Prithviraj Chavan, might be a pushover for Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar’s nephew and the state’s new Deputy Chief Minister. Read more
(4 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 19, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ajit Pawar, Bal Thackeray, Big Boss, hindustan times, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, news, Prithviraj Chavan, Sharad Pawar
There’s something distinctively feeble about the tiger’s roar these days. And perhaps many of the recent fat cats in the Shiv Sena have something to do with it. Read more
(9 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 8, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bigg Boss Season 4, lathi-charge, Lonavla, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, MNS, My Name Is Khan, Raj Thackeray, Shah Rukh Khan, Shiv Sainiks, Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray
On a television programme last week that was debating the controversy over the use of the term ‘Bombay’ by Karan Johar in his film Wake up, Sid and his apology to Raj Thackeray, I said I steadfastly refuse to call the city that has been my karmabhoomi anything but ‘Bombay’. Read more
(10 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, October 16, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bal Thackeray, Bombay, Karan Johar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Mumbai Scottish or Bombay Dyeing, north indian, Raj Thackeray
