Hindustan Times
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
(3 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
