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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 …
Does BJP have no decency left to defend its own?
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 …
If cleanliness is next to godliness, god forgive us
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 …
(HEART) BREAKING NEWS: ADVANI SWORN IN
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 …
BJP defeat is a defeat of BJP brand of journalism
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 …
What if the BJP had actually won the 2009 polls?
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 …
‘The only person to blame for BJP loss is Advani’
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 …
How the Congress family defeated Sangh Parivar
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 …
How come no one saw or heard the worm turn?
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 …
Does corruption matter? Is the Pope Catholic?
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 …
‘Discrimination of Muslims in India is a plain lie’
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 …
‘What I told the Cash-for-Votes scam probe panel’
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 …
What Suhail Hindustani told cash-for-votes panel
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?” “Well, here’s the proof.”
“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 …
Nuclear Vajpayee vs nuclear Manmohan Singh
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 …
‘Have only the Gandhis suffered violence & loss?’
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 …
Tripitika (abridged) for our political bloodhounds
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 …
‘Do political movements need to obey the law?’
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. …
‘A creative, courageous, committed editor’
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 …