Hindustan Times
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
The BJP’s Gopinath Munde and Nitin Gadkari have almost always never agreed on anything. Read more
(8 votes, average: 2.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged bjp, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Maharashtra, Marathwada, Nationalist Congress Party, New Delhi, Nitin Gadkari, Pramod Mahajan, Rajiv Gandhi, Sadhvi Rithambara, Sharad Pawar, Singly political, Sujata Anandan, Vidarbha
I still recall how many people jumped on me when I described Anna Hazare as a loose cannon during his anti-corruption crusade at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi a few weeks ago. Still fewer cared for my observation that he was impressionable and wont to quicksilver changes of mind. Read more
(18 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 27, 2011 at 11:20 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 26/11, Anna Hazare, Ashok Chavan, Bihar, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, bjp, Congress, Gujarat Chief Minister Narenda Modi, Jantar Mantar, Lok Ayukta, Maharashtra, Mahatma Gandhi, New Delhi, Sharad Pawar, Sujata Anandan
Why am I not so impressed with the hoopla surrounding Anna Hazare and his fast unto death at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi? Read more
(33 votes, average: 2.64 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, April 8, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Bal Thackeray, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Jantar Mantar, Lokpal bill, Maharashtra, NCP, New Delhi, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Smita Prakash, Uma Bharti
There was a particularly bounteously placed functionary in the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party government in Maharashtra, today highly placed in New Delhi, who once called in a carpenter to make a concealed safe within a bedroom wall. Read more
(14 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Filed under politics · Tagged 2G scam, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, bombay high court, Congress, Gopinath Munde, Gujarat riots, Joint Parliamentary Committee, JPC, kapil sibal, Leader of Opposition, minister of state for urban development, Nationalist Congress Party, NCP, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Raj Purohit, Shiv Sena, Sushma Swaraj, Union Finance Minister, Union Rural Development Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh
On August 15 last year the BJP made such a fuss about their party president Nitin Gadkari’s absence at the flag hoisting ceremony in their party headquarters in New Delhi. Read more
(32 votes, average: 2.28 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Arun Jaitley, Bal Thackeray, bjp, Congress, Flag Code, flag hoisting, Gandhian socialism, hindustan times, Hubli, Kashmir, Lal Chowk, Mahatma Gandhi, Navin Jindal, New Delhi, news, Nitin Gadkari, Pramod Mahajan, Republic Day, RSS, saffron terrorism, Sushma Swaraj, Swami Aseemananda, tiranga yatra, Uma Bharti, Vidhan Sabha
Some weeks ago, I was fascinated to read my colleague Pankaj Vohra’s account, on his blog, of astrologers and diviners who mostly got it right. But I have not been so fortunate — I have yet to meet one who doesn’t go wrong! Read more
(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ashok Chavan, capital closeup, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, hindustan times, New Delhi, Pankaj Vohra, Vilasrao Deshmukh
I have been on the road all across Maharashtra for the past ten days and I must admit, in typical Hinglish-speak, I Am Loving It!
It is election season in Maharashtra again and my mind goes back to the Eighties when I covered election campaigns in the rural areas, getting to the villages strap-hanging in buses, asking for lifts from farmers driving tractors on the highways to take me those places where the buses would not go and then being dropped off at the nearest bus terminus again riding pillions on mopeds driven by villagers chivalrous enough to give me a ride. Read more
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Filed under India · Tagged city-slicker, Dehradun, Eighties, election, Hinglish, hitch-hike, Maharashtra, New Delhi, safety, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, village
Last week, I wrote about coming face to face with Mrs Indira Gandhi in Assam where my editor had sent me to cover elections in the early Eighties.
I was pitched headlong into the thick of real journalism (and, perhaps, real life as this story will reveal) by my then editor and meeting Mrs Gandhi was a bonus. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Assam, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi, Rajesh Pilot
