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Sudheendra Kulkarni

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    Former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and Observer Research Foundation Chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni during a press conference on 'Paris climate Change Pact', in Mumbai.

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    En Route: to Kasuri’s book launch, Kulkarni was attacked by Shiv Sena men

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    Left Front activists take part in a rally aganist Central Government in Kolkata, West Bengal.

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    Let The Doves Gather We don't know if the great Dilip Kumar is a deep reader of statecraft. But it wasn't going to matter to former Pakistan foreign minister Khu­r­­shid Mah...

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    Shiv Sena activists today allegedly smeared black ink on the face of ORF chairman Sudheendra Kulkarni for organising the book launch of Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider's Acc...

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    From left, former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste, Senior BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni alongwith Mahavir Bhagora and Suhail Hindustani after appearing in T...

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    Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, senior BJP leader L K Advani and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and others at the launch of Sudheendra Kulkarni's (3rd R) book Music of the Spinning W...

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    Senior BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni (L) alongwith Suhail Hindustani(2nd L) and former BJP MPs Faggan Singh Kulaste (R) and Mahavir Bhagora(2nd R) speak t...

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    Sudheendra Kulkarni at court on Sep 27

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    Senior BJP leader L K Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni at Tees Hazari court, in New Delhi.

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    Senior BJP leader LK Advani's former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni interacts with the media outside Parliament House in New Delhi.

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  • 'LK And His Gang'
    First Sudheendra Kulkarni, a key aide of LK Advani blamed 'the BJP and the Sangh Parivar' for making 'a strong leader like Advani ... look weak, helpless and not fully in command'. But, says his old IIT friend, it was none other than Advani to blame
    Jun 11, 2009
    | Anil Chawla
  • 'An Eye-Witness'
    Text of the written statement made by the former aide to prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, and currently aide to Lal Krishna Advani, before the parliamentary committee probing the cash-for-votes scandal on 22 July 2008
    Aug 18, 2008
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • The Kulkarni Paper
    The text of the now controversial paper presented by Sudheendra Kulkarni, National Secretary, BJP and BJP president L K Advani's key aide and speech-writer, at the 'Thinkers Meet' in Bhopal on March 23-24.
    Jun 22, 2005
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  • <b>En Route:</b> to Kasuri’s book launch, Kulkarni was attacked by Shiv Sena men
    Invitation To A Peace Trade
    Kasuri describes how India and Pakistan almost negotiated a deal on Kashmir. They must take that road again.
    Nov 23, 2015
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • <b>Pained exodus</b> W. Asian refugees at a Croatian border point
    A Refuge In Memory
    Europe and the world must remember refugee crises of the past
    Oct 12, 2015
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • <B>Being poor in Jesus</b> For years, Pope Francis, here seen kissing a child in Turin, has followed a frugal lifestyle
    The Flowers Of Papa Francesco
    Hindu religious leaders might draw a page or two of sense from Pope Francis’s encyclicals on poverty, inequality, climate change
    Aug 03, 2015
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • <b>At home</b> Vajpayee playing with his niece and pets
    Symphonist In A Solo Orchestra
    Why Atal Behari Vajpayee matters—to India, to the BJP, to Modi. And what Modi can learn from him.
    Apr 13, 2015
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • Time To Say Death To The Death Penalty
    Isn’t it ironic that killing people for killing people is seen as necessary to show that killing is wrong?
    Dec 15, 2014
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • Why I Like Outlook
    The reasons Sudheendra Kulkarni raps Outlook on the knuckles for are the very ones I would give to pat the magazine on the back.
    Nov 17, 2014
    | Dileep Padgaonkar
  • Why I Can’t Stand Outlook
    I have often disliked Outlook’s penchant, in its attempt to be anti-establishment, for negativism, cynicism and anti-Hindu bias.
    Nov 10, 2014
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • <b>Shapers of the party</b> Atal Behari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani in New Delhi in 1996
    The First Republic Will Stand
    More hackwork than scholarly investigation and analysis, Kingshuk Nag’s book gets its reading of the Modi era wrong, investing it with the weightiness of a shift in polity
    Sep 15, 2014
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • <b>The Real Test:</b> It lies not in symbolism, but in the conscience
    How Not To Bely The Mt Everest Of Hope
    An open letter to PM Narendra Modi, from the man who’d called him an autocrat who cares two hoots for his party
    Jun 02, 2014
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
  • Still Tightening The Veil
    Bhyrappa’s fevered hatred of Indian Muslims and their heritage violates his own, bragged principle: truth-telling
    Apr 14, 2014
    | Sudheendra Kulkarni
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  • Who Will Investigate The Investigators?
    Who Will Investigate The Investigators?
    Sep 27, 2011
  • 'Yeh Hindutva Kya Hota Hai?'
    'Yeh Hindutva Kya Hota Hai?'

    So asked Atal Behari Vajpayee. Or so says the man described as Advani's problem about the man they called BJP's mukhota, or mask. We are not sure whether Sri Rajnath Singh's description of it as  "a geo-cultural concept" would have satisfied him.

    As Prime Minister, Atalji rarely used the term Hindutva. The one time he did so on a public platform was to sharply rebuke its narrow, dogmatic and exclusivist projection. The occasion was the launch of a book, India First, authored by the late K.R. Malkani, at 7 Race Course Road in March 2002. Here is how PTI reported his speech on that day. “In a clear disapproval of the recent actions of the so-called practitioners of Hindutva, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, tonight said it would be better to ‘keep a distance’ from the kind of Hindutva being practised by some now. Speaking at a book release function here, he said when Swami Vivekananda spoke of Hinduism, nobody called him communal. ‘But now, some people have defined Hindutva in such a manner that it is better to keep a distance from it.’ He said Hindutva should not be equated with religion as it was ‘a way of life’. We should keep away from such Hindutva which is stagnant.”

    More here

     

    Interesting also that while many have commented on ABV's absence that proved expensive for the BJP this time around, another man, Pramod Mahajan, instrumental for their coming to power, had gone largely unremembered, until today, when Maneka Gandhi felt the need to compare his style of functioning with Arun Jaitley's.

    Jun 21, 2009
  • The BJP: Not Chintan But Manthan
    The BJP: Not Chintan But Manthan

    It's still very much the open season as far as the BJP is concerned. Vir Sanghvi says the middleclass has grown up, the BJP has not.  And as if to prove him right, after Arun Jaitley, Sudheendra Kulkarni, Brajesh Mishra, Anil Chawla and Jaswant Singh, it was now the turn of  Mr Yashwant Sinha to go public with what he points out are the problems with the party. Mr Rajnath Singh's problems clearly are not over, despite the gag-order that seems to have been more than a bit belated.

    Meanwhile, Swapan Dasgupta  responds to Sudheendra Kulkarni's observations in Tehelka and says that while some of them are unexceptionable, the real problem with the BJP was that  "Advani didn’t attend to the problems. Instead, he embarked on the suicidal course of trying to transform a parliamentary election into a presidential one.... Advani strategy lay in bypassing a problem-ridden party..." and, indeed, that "[t]here are many in the BJP who insist that the problem with Advani was Kulkarni".

    Pratap Bhanu Mehta feels that this public spat is a good thing and what the BJP needs is not so much a chintan as much as a manthan, a churning, to root out the poison. His pithy prognosis: it is a party of little men:

    It is a party that thrives on victimhood: whatever happens is always someone else's fault. No wonder "atma chintan" is looking a bit like an oxymoron. Other parties have abandoned nationalism for opportunism. BJP did something worse: it made nationalism opportunism. No wonder its leaders cannot face up to the fact that most of them have been playing a game of such petty interests.

    And he raises the more fundamental question about the party's future:  "Is there any leader amongst this lot who has the minimal credibility to take the party in any direction?" Only to conclude with what is clearly the crux of the matter: "More than the RSS, it is now clear that what made the party viable was Mr. Vajpayee".

    Jun 14, 2009
  • BJP: Hindu Divided Family
    BJP: Hindu Divided Family

    Sudheendra Kulkarni,  LK Advani’s key aide, who was closely associated with the BJP election campaign, specifically the campaign of LK Advani, writes in Tehelka that if the BJP wants to win, it needs to rethink its approach to Muslims, Hindutva, the poor, the RSS, and itself:

    At a broader level, it is high time the BJP seriously debated and decided what it means by ‘Hindutva’, and also what formulations of ‘Hindutva’ are not acceptable to it. True, the BJP must remain an ideology-driven party. But without clarity on what the BJP’s ideology is, the party cannot win the support of more Hindus, let alone the support of Muslims and Christians...

    ...As far as taking the BJP closer to the minorities (Muslims and Christians) is concerned, both confusion and indifference within the party are of Himalayan magnitude. The mentality of a large section of the party is so dogmatic that any idea of promoting the welfare and development of Indian Muslims, or of addressing their legitimate concerns, is quickly brushed aside as “appeasement”. In five long years after 2004, the BJP did not come up with a single worthwhile initiative which Muslims could welcome. Take the example of the Sachar Committee report.

    ...the party’s collective mind is suffering from a prolonged confusion about how to deal with issues relating to Indian Muslims. Those leaders who want to think and act innovatively know that they are prone to be quickly accused of following a “Muslim- appeasement” policy. The BJP’s Minority Morcha is a non-operational body, whose voice is heard neither within the party nor within the Muslim community.

    The entrenched thinking within the BJP is that “Muslims never vote for us and therefore there is no need to think or do anything for them.”
    Read the full piece at Tehelka

    Jun 08, 2009
  • Farid Zakaria: India's Coming-Out Party
    Farid Zakaria: India's Coming-Out Party

    In the Newsweek, on the election results:

    One can date precisely China's debut as a great power. It was the evening of Aug. 8, 2008—the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics... We might look back a few years from now and date India's coming-out party to May 18, 2009, the day its most recent election results were announced. They are also a fitting symbol—in this case of India's unique strengths, which are defined not by state power but people power, with all the messiness and chaos that implies. With 420 million people voting, the recent polls were the biggest exercise of democracy in history.

    The date seems to be a typo (the results came out on May 16), but Zakaria is quite right about the broad point:  "The Indian electorate is one of the world's poorest and least educated, and yet it voted with remarkable intelligence*".

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    *Mr Advani's close aide seems to agree, albeit for different reasons.

    May 25, 2009
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  • Responsibility of India, Pak to Make SAARC Summit a Success: Kulkarni
    Responsibility of India, Pak to Make SAARC Summit a Success: Kulkarni
    Aug 08, 2016
  • Sena Protests at Kulkarni's Presser for Hosting Pak Delegates
    Sena Protests at Kulkarni's Presser for Hosting Pak Delegates
    Jun 28, 2016
  • PM Has Taken a 'Courageous' Step: Sudheendra Kulkarni
    PM Has Taken a 'Courageous' Step: Sudheendra Kulkarni
    Dec 25, 2015
  • Uddhav Thackeray Should Visit Pakistan: Sudheendra Kulkarni
    Uddhav Thackeray Should Visit Pakistan: Sudheendra Kulkarni
    Dec 23, 2015
  • Modi Should Visit Pakistan to Improve Bilateral Ties: Kulkarni
    Modi Should Visit Pakistan to Improve Bilateral Ties: Kulkarni
    Nov 27, 2015
  • Sudheendra Kulkarni to Visit Pak for Kasuri's Book Launch
    Sudheendra Kulkarni to Visit Pak for Kasuri's Book Launch
    Oct 30, 2015
  • Tolerance Deteriorating: Farooq on Attack on Kulkarni
    Tolerance Deteriorating: Farooq on Attack on Kulkarni
    Oct 13, 2015
  • Uddhav Pats Sena Workers Who Blackened Kulkarni's Face
    Uddhav Pats Sena Workers Who Blackened Kulkarni's Face
    Oct 13, 2015
  • Opposition Blames Maharashtra CM for Kulkarni Incident
    Opposition Blames Maharashtra CM for Kulkarni Incident
    Oct 12, 2015
  • Shiv Sainiks Blacken Kulkarni's Face, Book Launch Held As Scheduled
    Shiv Sainiks Blacken Kulkarni's Face, Book Launch Held As Scheduled
    Oct 12, 2015
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