Author Archives: Ashwin Medhekar

Dated: May 18, 2009 This was written by me after BJP got a drubbing at the polls. The Indian electorate has at last given a mandate that is come close to being decisive. It is nowhere close to the 1984 mandate that it gave the Congress but far better than a fractured mandate that theContinue reading “Reflections of a BJP Supporter”

It is not because what Prashant Bhushan said on a referendum on army deployment on Kashmir that I have started disliking him; I never liked him and I had expressed this sentiment in a lot of discussions; PB is reason enough not to like AAP. He hob nobs and shares the dias often with ArundhatiContinue reading “AAP Ke Deewane”

I had in my earlier post acknowledged the impact made by AAP. That was well deserved without doubt, for I was one of those who firmly believed that they would not get even one single seat. Commentators have opined them to be a force to reckon with and perhaps a turning point in Indian politics.Continue reading “Pehle AAP?”