Hindustan Times
My passport lists my place of birth as Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh. When it comes up for renewal I don’t know if I will feel comfortable calling the state where I was born `Chhatisgarh’. For my mother is not Chhatisgarhi by even a long shot; she is from Madhya Pradesh.
I have cousins who `lived’ in Uttar Pradesh. But now they are Uttaranchalis, resident in its capital of Dehradun for years, long before Uttaranchal came into existence. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, December 11, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bilaspur, Chhatisgarh, District Magistrate of Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh, Maharasht, Nagpur University, passport, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Vidarbha, VP Naik
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
