Sujata Anandan
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
The delicious irony of Nawazuddin playing Thackeray
UPDATED ON JAN 31, 2019 06:43 PM IST
All those spouting anger at Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s acceptance of the role of Thackeray as a betrayal should actually look upon it as poetic justice
Women should not allow men to hide behind their bangles
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
UPDATED ON JAN 22, 2019 11:31 PM IST
It is the women, lending their bangles to further patriarchy, who should think again
Panipat was not a Hindu-Muslim war, nor will be 2019
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON JAN 15, 2019 11:59 PM IST
The coming electoral battle can be nothing like Panipat
Game, set and match for Shiv Sena?
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON JAN 09, 2019 12:44 AM IST
Although the Sena may come around and work out an arrangement with the BJP, the latter is doing itself no favour by allowing both its desperation and its arrogance get the better of it
Sharad Pawar playing ducks and drakes again?
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON JAN 02, 2019 12:42 AM IST
Opinion: Heads the Shiv Sena wins, tails it does not really lose
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON DEC 26, 2018 10:14 AM IST
Even at the peak of the Ram temple issue Pandharpur had stayed calm and unimpressed, giving not much quarter to the saffron forces. So why should now be any different?
Column| Once bitten, the Shiv Sena is no way twice shy
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON DEC 19, 2018 09:00 AM IST
The results of elections to the three Hindi heartland states have almost reduced the BJP to begging the Sena for an alliance
Summer crops bring winter woes to Maharashtra’s farmers and politicians
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON DEC 11, 2018 11:14 PM IST
A record bumper crop of garlic has similarly led to plummeting prices and there is no outlet for the excess pomegranate crop as Pakistan and Bangladesh, the major importers of onion, garlic and fruits, have ceased lifting stocks due to India’s foreign policy glitches with the neighbours
The great fall of Maharashtra police
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON DEC 05, 2018 12:04 AM IST
The latest in sordid episodes that have given their image a fresh beating is a viral video clip of IPS officer Bhagyashree Navatake from Beed district
If the Sena rejects crumbs, will the BJP eat the humble pie?
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON NOV 28, 2018 12:49 AM IST
Embracing Hindutva again also means the Sena knows it has finally lost the Muslim vote it had so assiduously built up after the riots of 1992-93
Maratha reservation: Being poor is not the same as being socially backward
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON NOV 20, 2018 10:58 PM IST
Calling Marathas socially backward is confusing comparative poverty with lack of social privilege
Shiv Sena: In the pale shadow of Bal Thackeray’s legacy
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON NOV 14, 2018 12:02 AM IST
Uddhav Thackeray is not his father but the fact that the BJP is still putting up with all the Shiv Sena is in no small measure owing to the deep roots that Bal Thackeray has struck among the people
Tiger, not burning bright in Maharashtra
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON NOV 06, 2018 11:54 PM IST
It seems rather a cruel act on part of any authority to kill a tigress with young cubs in cold blood even if she is believed to have attacked human beings in the past
Maharashtra’s internal water wars: Beer breweries versus sugar factories
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON OCT 30, 2018 11:53 PM IST
If breweries are dependent on large quantities of water, so are cane growers because sugar is a water-intensive industry and often draws 80% or more of the water resources, leaving very little to others in their own region
Sharad Pawar’s puppet mastery is under fire this poll season
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON OCT 23, 2018 10:53 PM IST
For the first time since he entered politics, Pawar has been unable to play and manipulate the BJP-led government as he did during other regimes in the state as well as the Centre
Prodigal sons and pitfalls of homecomings
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON OCT 16, 2018 11:07 PM IST
It is always difficult choosing prodigal sons over those who stood by you during bad times
Yes, the NCP has no ideology
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
UPDATED ON OCT 09, 2018 11:22 PM IST
Pawar shoots himself in the foot, again!
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON OCT 02, 2018 10:25 PM IST
The Shiv Sena’s makeover is not going well
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON SEP 25, 2018 10:50 PM IST
Athawale, always an enfant terrible
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
UPDATED ON SEP 19, 2018 05:00 PM IST
The ruling laddoo or the opposition jalebi?
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON SEP 12, 2018 12:49 AM IST
Nothing to write home about here
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON SEP 05, 2018 01:39 AM IST
If one is critical of the state police, what does one say about prosecutors who fantastically claimed that these activists, being labelled as urban naxals, were actually forming an “anti-fascist” front to defeat the government?
A tangled web of political interests
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan, Mumbai
PUBLISHED ON AUG 29, 2018 12:36 AM IST
Police in the neighbouring state have released a list of 22 people, including writer and actor Girish Karnad, who are on the alleged hit list of Sanatan Sanstha
The danger posed by politics of hate
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON AUG 23, 2018 07:31 PM IST
Protests taken out against the arrest of Vaibhav Raut, allegedly of Sanatan Sanstha, are worrying
The machismo of killing frail old men and women
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON AUG 15, 2018 12:36 AM IST
Must these young men necessarily have to physically eliminate frail old men and women they cannot combat intellectually?
Nitin Gadkari: Frank, free, often politically incorrect
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON AUG 08, 2018 10:40 PM IST
Over the years, there were many nuggets of plain-speak from Gadkari, including one on Uddhav Thackeray which clued me in to the BJP’s intention to sever ties with the Shiv Sena long before it actually happened.
Devendra Fadnavis is hemmed in on reservation issue
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON AUG 01, 2018 10:21 PM IST
The ruling dispensation is caught in a cleft stick because it foolishly promised reservations not just to Marathas but also to Dhangars (shepherds) in its manifesto in 2014
With Shiv Sena turning liberal, India goes topsy-turvy
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
PUBLISHED ON JUL 25, 2018 01:04 AM IST
The Shiv Sena has come a long way since the days when its brand of Hindutva was considered too extreme by even the BJP
Milk flows again as friends turn foes
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON JUL 18, 2018 09:39 PM IST
Last year, when Fadnavis initially went ballistic against farmers, he had the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghtana (SSS) on his side
Monsoon misery in Mumbai and across Maharashtra
Hindustan Times | By Sujata Anandan
UPDATED ON JUL 11, 2018 12:34 AM IST