Sujata Anandan

Sujata Anandan Journalist for nearly three decades, has lived through the turbulent decades of upheaval in contemporary Indian politics and has closely observed the rise and fall of the Shiv Sena through those years. She has worked for leading newspapers like The Indian Express, magazines like Outlook and a wire service (United News of India). A versatile writer, Sujata has distinguished herself as a political analyst with sharp insights. She emulates the style of her subject matter for this book - Bal Thackeray - in telling it like it is. As a young correspondent she specialized in conflict and disaster news coverage, riots, massacres, cyclones and earthquakes in different parts of the world and has also faced occasional rough weather in the newsroom. She makes Western India her home and is currently employed by the Hindustan Times as its Political Editor (West) in the Mumbai office.