IE Columnist: Sudheendrakulkarni

Re-enfranchise the poor in our cities

2009-08-09T00:01:59+05:30

SCENE 1. Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) near Kashmiri Gate, Delhi: I have come to meet Sanjeev Sahai, my former colleague in the PMO who is now CEO...

Walk the talk on better cities

2009-08-02T00:01:58+05:30

I am truly delighted by readers� response to this series of articles on how to create better cities, and to the column that engendered the idea of the series.

Building better cities

2009-07-26T00:01:57+05:30

Nirman Bhawan in New Delhi houses the Ministry of Urban Development as well as the Ministry of Health....

Anyone for ideal cities?

2009-07-19T00:01:56+05:30

My column last week (�An ideal village, an inspiring leader�) about how one idealistic and determined grassroots leader....

An ideal village, an inspiring leader

2009-07-12T00:01:55+05:30

The road from Parner to Hivre Bazar, in the rural expanse of central Maharashtra, passes through an arid land untouched...

What Rail Bhavan needs is reformist zeal

2009-07-05T00:01:54+05:30

Every time I travel in and out of the newly modernised Delhi and Mumbai airports, I am filled with both pride and pain.

Why Nilekani needs a broader mandate

2009-06-28T00:01:53+05:30

Dr Manmohan Singh�s government deserves kudos for appointing Nandan Nilekani as the head of a super-ambitious national...

BJP should keep off stagnant Hindutva

2009-06-21T00:01:52+05:30

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whose ill-health has rendered him inactive for the past few years, was a deeply contemplative political leader.

A positive Hindu-Vatican dialogue

2009-06-14T00:01:51+05:30

Stupendous two days. I�ll never forget these two days lived in love and trust and engaged in Hindu-Christian dialogue.� This is how Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran....

Obama�s candour in timeless Cairo

2009-06-07T00:01:50+05:30

Barack Obama�s speech in Egypt on Thursday is quite simply one of the most important articulations....

For Mumbai, a film on Shivajigiri

2009-05-31T00:01:49+05:30

In the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance suffered a 0-6 rout in Mumbai...

Why stability won over change

2009-05-24T00:01:48+05:30

May 16 has reinforced my two inter-related beliefs about the behaviour of the Indian voter.

A karmayogi�s last marathon

2009-05-17T00:01:47+05:30

In the last lap of the marathon election campaign, two wisdom-filled books, both by Japanese authors....

From tu-tu-main-main to tu and main

2009-05-10T00:01:46+05:30

This election saw me perform a new task for my party�s campaign.

Why flog a dead horse called justice

2009-05-03T00:01:45+05:30

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.....

The Congress quartet�s political morality

2009-04-26T00:01:44+05:30

The 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.

The Prime Minister�s ersatz bravado

2009-04-19T00:01:43+05:30

For a conscientious politician, honour is a greater adornment than power. He values honour more than the office he holds.....

Why is India�s �Regent� PM angry?

2009-04-12T00:01:42+05:30

Of 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.

Why India is turning to populism

2009-04-05T00:01:41+05:30

Not being an expert in etymology, I do not know how the word �populism� originated. However, keen observers of and participants....

Congress manifesto: high on style, low on substance

2009-03-29T00:01:40+05:30

When 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......

Boosting Bharat�s bandwidth for progress

2009-03-22T00:01:39+05:30

I 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.....

Election 2009�s caste vote

2009-03-15T00:01:38+05:30

It is amazing how much the forthcoming parliamentary elections revolve around the issue of caste......

Soliloquy, with Atalji�s poetry

2009-03-08T00:01:37+05:30

The poet who wrote these defiant and inspirational lines is now back at his home, after many days of hospitalisation....

Attacking the aam aadmi�s swabhiman

2009-03-01T00:01:36+05:30

In a recent interaction with my party�s young campaigners in the coming parliamentary elections...

Bringing development to the bahujan within the bahujan

2009-02-22T00:01:35+05:30

H.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.