Hindustan Times
A good friend of mine, who has watched Indian politics from the inner circles of more than one political party, once told me, “The nature of the people in this country is such that they never endorse anyone who openly expresses the desire to become the Prime Minister of India. Read more
(20 votes, average: 2.2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 5, 2013 at 10:23 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, Babri Masjid, bjp prime ministerial candidate, congress prime ministerial candidate, Indian politics, LK Advani, Manmohan Singh, Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar PV Narasimha Rao, Sujata Anandan
A close friend of mine was, once upon a time, political adviser to former prime minister VP Singh. I met him first in the 1980s and had always seen him in the staple of netagiri – khadi kurtas and Aligarhi pyjamas. Read more
(21 votes, average: 2.29 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 25, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Anna Hazare, Harivnder Singh, hindustan times, Manmohan Singh, news, Ralegan-Siddhi, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sainiks, Singly political, such Ram, Sujata Anandan, V P Singh
I have rarely heard a wittier line from a Congressman. Read more
(36 votes, average: 2.56 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged 2G note, Abhishek Manu Singhvi, L K Advani, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Sonia Gandhi
For the first time ever, I have found myself agreeing with a BJP leader. When Arun Jaitley said in the Rajya Sabha that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s troubles came from the fact that he was being advised by far too many lawyers, he unerringly hit the nail on the head. Read more
(16 votes, average: 2.94 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 19, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Filed under India · Tagged A Raja, Anna Hazare, Arun Jaitley, bjp, british, Chidambaram, Congress, Dandi March, Digvijay Singh, Ganga, Hindustantimes, Jan Lokpal Bill, Kanimozhi, Kiran Bedi, Lokpal bill, Mahatma Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Rajya Sabha, Ramdev Baba, Ramlila Maidan, Right to Information, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Suresh Kalmadi, Swami Nigamananda, UPA
Recently I ran into a friend of union minister for science and technology Vilasrao Deshmukh who told me the latter had been quite incensed with his recent cabinet colleague Gurudas Kamat. Read more
(14 votes, average: 2.86 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 5, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 26/11, B S Yedyurappa, bjp, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gurudas Kamat, Hindustantimes, karnataka, Maharashtra, Manmohan Singh, MCA, Milind Deora, Mukul Wasnik, Mumbai Cricket Association, Murli Deora, NDA, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Sujata Anandan, Vilasrao Deshmukh
For all the trolls who go from blog to blog on the Hindustan Times website and label all its editors as Congress stooges or paid journalists, I finally know where they are getting that from. Read more
(83 votes, average: 1.82 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, March 25, 2011 at 7:14 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Amar Singh, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Bangaru Laxman, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, BJP leaders, Bombay Congress president, bribe, cash-for-vote, Congress, hindustan times, Kripashankar Singh, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Samajwadi Party, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Sushma Swaraj
Minutes after senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani had apologised to Sonia Gandhi for falsely accusing her and her family of having Swiss bank accounts of their own, Tushar Gandhi, the great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, had tweeted Read more
(60 votes, average: 2.53 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged apologising¸ Draupadi, Bhagat Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, Dusashan, hindustan times, L K Advani, Manmohan Singh, news, Rajguru, Rajiv Gandhi, RSS, Samajwadi Party, Sharad Pawar, Sonia Gandhi, Sukhdev, Tushar Gandhi, Valentine’s Day
Rahul Gandhi was not far wrong when he said earlier this week that compulsions of coalition politics were keeping food prices and inflation up. Read more
(32 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 14, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, capitalism, Coalition, Deve Gowda, food prices, Gandhi-Nehrus, inflation, Manmohan Singh, National Democratic Alliance, politics, Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, union agriculture minister, United Democratic Front
The first election I ever covered, by a quirk of fate, happened to be Assam’s. I do not know why my editor in Bombay transplanted me to the North East – I had neither the experience (less than a year) nor the expertise or perspective to report from a strife-torn region of the country.
But today it helps me to boast that I cut my milk teeth in journalism reporting on riots and massacres. Read more
(9 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 24, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Assam, Assembly Elections, Journalism, Manmohan Singh
