I wonder if the Sena and the AIMIM know that Bal Thackeray was the first person ever in India to lose his voting rights and that to contest elections for hate speeches he had made during a 1987 byelection to Vile Parle.
Articles by Sujata Anandan
Sharad Pawar’s fascinating sense of history | Opinion
Pawar’s love of Maharashtra overcame any frustration or disappointment he may have had at being let down by the people
Updated on Mar 18, 2020 07:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
Why Raj Thackeray will find no Bangladeshi in Mumbai
How will he identify the Bangladeshis? By the food they eat? Or the clothes they wear? BJP leader from Madhya Pradesh, Kailash Vijayvargiya, thinks Bangladeshis can be identified by the poha (puffed and then flattened rice) they eat
Updated on Feb 05, 2020 05:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujata Anandan
Why Shivaji was an incomparable king
The large portrait of the Maratha warrior king at the entrance of Mantralaya was set up by Antulay when he was the chief minister in the early 1980s.
Updated on Jan 15, 2020 12:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujata Anandan
Maha power and party: Walking the tightrope
Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, with each passing day, seems to be perfecting the art of the tightrope walk
Updated on Dec 17, 2019 11:57 PM IST
Uncle-nephews who held nation to ransom
Modern-day politics has been wracked by ambitious nephews who wanted to grab all from their more illustrious and hard-working uncles without quite deserving it
Updated on Nov 27, 2019 04:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujata Anandan
People’s power versus political opportunism
The BJP, which had been able to form governments even when it was not the single largest party, has simply not been able to do so in Maharashtra
Published on Nov 06, 2019 12:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
Sharad Pawar is still winning hearts of people
At almost 79 years of age, Pawar has proved he remains the sole grassroots politician in the state amid a generation of hothouse leaders dependent on Twitter and other social media to communicate to the people.
Updated on Oct 23, 2019 12:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sujata Anandan