In a week full of scams and scandals and exposes all over the country, just some random thoughts about my overview of the state of the nation – or rather its leaders. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 1:43 am
Filed under India, politics · Tagged bjp, Congress, hindustan times, Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati, Narendra Modi, Samajwadi Party, scams, scandals, Sheila Dixit, Singly political, Sonia Gandhi, Sujata Anandan, Sushma Swaraj
“As soon as BJP is done with its own leadership, it might think of providing some for the nation,” my colleague Madhavan Narayanan (@madversity) tweeted on Friday, hitting the nail bang on its head. Read more

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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

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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
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

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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

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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