Sudheendra Kulkarni
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 9 December '07
My first surprise discovery about Malaysia many years ago was that its national language Bahasa, a derivative of bhasha, is full of Sanskrit words.Sunday 2 December '07
The Lok Sabha, at last, debated the Indo-US nuclear deal on Wednesday. The prime minister’s participation in it was an exercise in minimalism.Sunday
25 November '07A schism between preaching and practice having long become an accepted norm in Indian politics, an un-Gandhian act by the Congress leadership...Sunday
18 November '07My last two days have been spent reading a scary book, Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy...Sunday
11 November '07The city is full of the sights and sounds of Diwali. Streets are lit up with endless strings of tiny electric bulbs. At home, the decoration is more traditional...Sunday
4 November '07Inclusive growth. That’s the mantra that Dr Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, P. Chidambaram and Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia have chanted since the UPA government came into being in May 2004...Sunday
28 October '07One question about the continuing drama and deepening political crisis over the Indo-US nuclear deal fills me with agony.Sunday
21 October '07The 1990s saw democracy take one of the biggest leaps forward all over the world — to be precise, in the Communist-ruled part of the world.Sunday
14 October '07The October issue of Sahitya Amrut, a Hindi monthly journal published by Prabhat Prakashan to promote good Indian literature...Sunday
7 October '07India won freedom 60 years ago, but the Indian kisan has now become a slave in his own country.Sunday
30 September '07Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by her son Rahul, will be representing India at the UN General Assembly on October 2.Sunday
23 September '07It was a week when the Sensex crossed the 16,000 mark, registering the highest single-day gain of 654 points and adding Rs 1,52,000 crore...Tuesday
18 September '07Ram and the ‘Ramayana’ are firmly etched in our cultural identity. The fiasco over the Ram Sethu issue is a salutary lesson...Sunday
9 September '07At a time when the political climate in the country is hotting up, making early parliamentary elections a certainty...Sunday
2 September '07A shaming, and enduring, image from TV news bulletins last week was that of a policeman in Bhagalpur, Bihar, dragging a petty criminal chained to his motorcycle.Sunday
26 August '07Is Prakash Karat, the CPM’s cerebral general-secretary, opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal at China’s behest? The insinuation is nonsensical.Sunday
19 August '07Is it the beginning of the end of the UPA government? The answer, clearly, is yes.Sunday
12 August '07This happens to be my 100th column in this newspaper. By happenstance or deeper design, it coincides with the week containing India’s Independence Day.Sunday
5 August '07Two bomb blasts, both serial in nature. Two verdicts, on two consecutive days. One in Mumbai, the other in Coimbatore. I covered the first as a journalist.Sunday
29 July '07Last week saw a new addition to my lexicon of Hindi words. I read on the front page of a Hindi newspaper that a real-estate magnate has become India’s third kharabpati.Sunday
22 July '07Sunday
15 July '07Sunday
8 July '07Last week, as skeletons continued to tumble out of the cupboard of the UPA’s presidential candidate, a few young activists of a non-political organisation called the Bharat Uday....Sunday
1 July '07Enough is enough,” said President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on June 23, making it clear that he did not want to “damage” the image of Rashtrapati Bhavan.Sunday
24 June '07Of the numerous letters I have received in response to the previous four columns on the need to transform BJP-Muslim relations, the most touching and thought-provoking...
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