Bal Thackeray is in the habit of referring to Suresh Kalmadi as a frog. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, August 6, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bal Thackeray, BCCI, bjp, Board for Control of Cricket in India, Commonwealth Games, Congress, CWG committee, frog, INC, Indian National Congress, Indian Olympic Association, Indian Premier League, IOC, IPL, Lalit Modi, Lok Sabha, Pune, saffron alliance, scamsters, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Suresh Kalmadi
Yogesh Jadhav, managing director of the Pudhari group of newspapers, recently told me, only half-jokingly, “When we studied History as kids we were told that Poona once belonged to the Peshwas. The next generation will learn that Pune belongs to the Pawars.” Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 4, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Annirudh Deshpande, Dynamix dairy, Indian Premier League, IPL, IPL scam, Maharashtra, newspaper, Pawars, Pudhari, Pune, Pune franchise, Sakal, Sharad Pawar, The Milkman of Baramati, Yogesh Jadhav
It’s a forgotten memory from the not-so distant past but with the RSS much in the news today in its bid to clean up the BJP and give the party new direction, I suddenly recalled their door-to-door campaign in Maharashtra nearly a decade ago (November 2000 to be precise). Read more

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