Can Narendra Modi win friends, influence voters?
A week is a long time in politics; a fortnight is an eternity. What seemed like, what was projected to be the penultimate stop in his march to his advertised …
A week is a long time in politics; a fortnight is an eternity. What seemed like, what was projected to be the penultimate stop in his march to his advertised …
The Liberhan Commission report on the demolition of the Babri masjid throws no new light on the dastardly designs of its its 67 execrable perpetrators. What it does is throw …
Two years ago, Sudheendra Kulkarni, the Belgaum-born, Kannada-speaking IITian-journalist who became an advisor to both Atal Behari Vajpayee and Lalchand Kishinchand Advani before leaving the BJP last week, wrote these …
Al Gore is “the former next president of the United States”, and he says so himself, tongue firmly in giant cheek. After the 2009 general elections, Lalchand Kishinchand Advani is …
PRITAM SENGUPTA in New Delhi and SHARANYA KANVILKAR in Bombay write: The stunning defeat of the BJP in the general elections has been dissected so many times and by so …
The BJP’s poor showing in the 2009 elections after all the televised thigh-slapping, moustache-twirling, eyeball-flaring and chest-thumping has seen senior functionaries and factotums of the party wash their khaki cheddis …
How we behave as winners, it is said, reveals a lot about our character. How we behave as losers, it must be said, reveals even more. Suddenly Loh Purush becomes …
Say what you will, but at least Pramod Mahajan had the courage to come out and face the cameras and, with some humility and a smile on his face, try …
SHARANYA KANVILKAR writes from Bombay: Hindsight, as the moronic aphorism goes, is always 20/20. And we have been seeing plenty of hindsight dressed as foresight over the last fortnight following …
Every single opinion poll and back-of-the-envelope prediction has put the BJP-led NDA behind the Congres-led UPA. So far. Now, an internal poll commissioned by the BJP gives it a slight …
Sudheendra Kulkarni in The Indian Express: “Indian Muslims need to introspect on whether the shrill and persistent propaganda that they are a persecuted and oppressed community in India is helping …
The following is the full, unexpurgated text of the written statement made by Sudheendra Kulkarni, the former aide to prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, and currently aide to Lal Krishna …
The following is the English translation of the affidavit filed in Hindi by Suhail Ahmed, alias Suhail Hindustani, alias Raja Hindustani, the alleged go-between in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked …
“Where is the proof?” asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when charges of horse-trading were made on the floor of the Lok Sahba during the trust vote. Sudheendra Kulkarni, advisor to former …
Sudheendra Kulkarni in The Indian Express: “Several decades from now, history will remember Atal Behari Vajpayee as the prime minister who took the bull by the horns and announced India’s …
Priyanka Vadra nee Gandhi‘s visit to the Vellore jail in March to meet her father’s assassin Nalini Sriharan to come “to peace with the violence and loss that I have …
Sudheendra Kulkarni writes on China’s bizarre response to the Tibetan protests, and recounts an encounter which Asra Nomani, the author of Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for …
Raj Thackeray, the Posterboy of Parochialism (West), has responded to an open letter in The Indian Express from Sudheendra Kulkarni, the Belgaum-born media advisor to Atal Behari Vajpayee and L.K. …
SUDHEENDRA KULKARNI writes from Bombay: When someone who is very close to you, or occupied an important place at some time in your life, passes away, do you somehow remember …