http://kuldeepsinghchouhan.blogspot.com/

Just to clarify, the first comment was (if you clicked on the link) made by Hindol Sengupta, the IBNlive blogger. The second was by Shivam Vij, a blogger on kafila

As for where I stand, its ABNM, or Anyone But Narendra Modi

I don’t think Red said that. It is from that IBNlive blog.

We, the middle-class, educated, metro-bred, Christian-education raised, young. We, the backbone of the knowledge, entreneurial economy. We, who have no representation. We have no voice. We have no one who speaks our language, our idiom.

Too bad, provide them some hand kerchiefs so that they can wipe their tears.

And scared. Her victory tells me once again how I, and people like me, have no voice in Indian politics anymore.

When people like you had power it was the Dalits who had no voice. Looks like you would rather have that. Appears that way from snobbish-ness coming out of the comment such as :

And people like me, well, we have always disliked the behenjis, now we are scared of them.

Well, somewhere in the Hindi heartland a “behenji” that you so dislike is saying ‘Payback is a bitch’ !!!

Urban Yuppy Indian is scared of Mayawati

http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/hindolsengupta/104/1744/why-i-am-afraid-of-mayawati.html

Mayawati’s historic victory has left me speechless. And scared. Her victory tells me once again how I, and people like me, have no voice in Indian politics anymore. We, the middle-class, educated, metro-bred, Christian-education raised, young. We, the backbone of the knowledge, entreneurial economy. We, who have no representation. We have no voice. We have no one who speaks our language, our idiom.

And people like me, well, we have always disliked the behenjis, now we are scared of them. They rule. We have no voice.

Truly, the masses have hit back and how. In fact, in many circumstances, I am almost apologetic about by background. It is sneered at. It is also ‘firang’, and ‘angrez-loving’, my love for the couplet and British poetry and world cinema, and, and… and everything, shunned by the Hindi heartland. The people who rule.

Others are afraid of Yuppy Indian

http://www.kafila.org/2007/05/17/why-hindol-sengupta-neednt-fear-mayawati/

Sengupta’s understanding of caste politics – that the lower castes, the ‘oppressed’, vote for People Like Them for a sense of power – is to miss the wood for the trees. Indeed, if you ask Dalits in a remote village in eastern Uttar Pradesh (as I did in the middle of February this year) why they vote for Mayawati, they will actually say that they do so because she brings them dignity, because she is one of their own. In the mid-nineties Mayawati used to say in her rallies, “Main Chamar ki beti hoon. Main Chamari hoon, main tumhari hoon.”