Hindustan Times
Sometime in December 2000, Sharad Pawar first announced his interest in cricket with the declaration that he would contest to the office of president of the Mumbai Cricket Association that year. But things were not going quite as he had planned. He had never lost an election before (barring one to the Congress presidency against Sitaram Kesri in 1997 – his defeat at the BCCi in 2004 was yet to come) and he did not want to lose this one now. He would rather he got elected unopposed. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, July 10, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Filed under India · Tagged BCCI, Congress Presidency, mumbai, Mumbai Cricket Association, Sharad Pawar, Sitaram Kesri
Like my colleague Kushalrani Gulab, I am all set for the monsoon, too – but the rains just haven’t come.
Monsoon in Mumbai always puts me in a benign mood about the city’s cops – no, don’t laugh. They are a much maligned lot but where would we be, or rather where would I have been one really rainy day — make that two – had it not been for the humble havaldar? Read more
(7 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Colaba, Gateway of India, monsoon, mumbai, Nariman Point
While on the subject of Bal Thackeray and drinks last week, I recalled an interesting incident that happened days after the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance came to power in Maharashtra in 1995. Readers of my column ‘Anandan on Wednesday’ in the Bombay edition of the Hindustan Times will remember this for I have written about it in a different context but I thought the story was too tickling pink not to share with a wider readership. Read more
(12 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Bal Thackeray, bjp, builders, construction, hiranandani, mumbai, murli manohar joshi, shive sena
