"Sudheendra Kulkarni"@en . "Kulkarni, Sudheendra"@en . . "Indian politician and columnist" . . . . . "Director of PMO" . . "Sudheendra Kulkarni is an Indian politician and columnist.Kulkarni was educated at Jadhavji Anandji High School in Athani, a town in Belgaum district, Karnataka, India. He then attended the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.A former member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Kulkarni joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1996. Of this ideological switch he said, \"People like me were living in an illusory land."@en . . .