Sudheendra Kulkarni
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 10 May '09
This election saw me perform a new task for my party’s campaign.Sunday 3 May '09
One of the memorable experiences from my years as a journalist is associated with the centenary celebrations of the Congress party in Mumbai in 1985.....Sunday
26 April '09The kid-glove treatment that much of the media reserves for the Nehru dynasty and its nominated Prime Minister is one of the many troubling lessons in what is wrong with our democracy.Sunday
19 April '09For a conscientious politician, honour is a greater adornment than power. He values honour more than the office he holds.....Sunday
12 April '09Of late, our soft-spoken Prime Minister has begun using harsh language—not about the enemies of the nation but about the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.Sunday
5 April '09Not being an expert in etymology, I do not know how the word ‘populism’ originated. However, keen observers of and participants....Sunday
29 March '09When it comes to manifestos of political parties, a section of the intelligentsia and the media exhibits a dismissive tendency that riles political activists like me......Sunday
22 March '09I met the renowned agriculture scientist, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, at his office in Chennai a few years ago to discuss the monumental work he was doing as chairman of the first-ever National Kisan Commission.....Sunday
15 March '09It is amazing how much the forthcoming parliamentary elections revolve around the issue of caste......Sunday
8 March '09The poet who wrote these defiant and inspirational lines is now back at his home, after many days of hospitalisation....Sunday
1 March '09In a recent interaction with my party’s young campaigners in the coming parliamentary elections...Sunday
22 February '09H.L. Dusadh is not the typical high-society Delhi intellectual one sees at the India International Centre and other usual places in the seminar circuit.Sunday
15 February '09The other day I was talking to a fellow political activist about how to increase voter turnout on the polling day.Sunday
8 February '09‘Why Democracy Is Struggling in Asia’ was the cover story of a recent issue of TIME magazine.Sunday
1 February '09Elections to the 15th Lok Sabha are only ten weeks away. Can anything be said about their outcome without the fear of being contradicted....Sunday
25 January '09The Delhi airport, now undergoing a major renovation, tells me a lot about our Republic and our democracy.Sunday
18 January '09Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Discovery of India’ is following such bizarrely unconventional ways that it is impossible not to subject it to public scrutiny.Sunday
11 January '09The fog in Delhi is clearing up. The sun is regaining his brightness, adding warmth to the chill that hasn’t departed yet. In a few weeks from now...Sunday
4 January '09How about using the first column of 2009 to write about an experience that will spread hope, happiness and good thoughts?Sunday
28 December '08Crises are good, provided, as my learned colleague Arun Shourie argues with compelling logic, we do not waste them.Sunday
21 December '08Come for my concert, messaged my friend Vidya Shah, an acclaimed classical singer whose rendering of bhakti and Sufi songs demonstrates the syncretic nature of Indian culture...Sunday
14 December '08A short trip to Washington DC last week to participate in a conference on India-US relations gave me an opportunity to have a glimpse of the dramatic changes now underway in America.Sunday
7 December '08After horror, some hope. After anger and frustration, a loud and clear warning.Sunday
30 November '08Only a visionary could have built it 106 years ago. The Taj Mahal Hotel is one of the most spectacular buildings in the world...Sunday
23 November '08It might seem perverse to claim that the current economic crisis in the country, and also in the rest of the world, has a good side to it.
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