Rajdeep Sardesai – Page 10 – Breaking Views

April 7, 2022
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Why two nations bowled out two prominent netas

These aren’t the best of times for cricketers-turned-netas in the subcontinent. In Pakistan, Imran Khan has been forced out of the prime ministerial chair after losing a parliamentary majority....

March 25, 2022
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Kashmiri Pandits: Time for ‘Truth Files’ and Justice

Long before Kashmir Files, there was Parzania, a film that relives the trauma of a Parsee family who lost their teenage son in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Just before...

March 24, 2022
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The Kashmir Files: A tragedy retold

Long before The Kashmir Files, there was Parzania, a film that relives the trauma of a Parsi family that lost their son in the 2002 Gujarat riots. Just before...

March 12, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Rise of a ‘new’ BJP in a ‘new’ India

If a week can be a long time in Indian politics, a decade is truly an eternity. Just jog back to Uttar Pradesh 2012 when the BJP won a...

February 25, 2022
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BJP has clear edge in UP battle

In the narrow lane from the Hanumangarhi temple to the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, the local shopkeepers are visibly upset. Their shops will be demolished as the town...

February 11, 2022
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The Immortal Power of being Lata Mangeshkar

It was in Pakistan at the peak of the Kargil war that I realized the power of the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. We had spent a harrowing day in...

January 28, 2022
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The AAP factor

If there was an award for the most successful political start up of the last decade, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would be the obvious front-runner (the YSRCP in...

January 15, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Remembering Kamal Khan

‘Kamal was news tv before the circus took over’ It’s been a pretty miserable Makar Sankranti. Early this morning a call from my old NDTV friend Manish Kumar was...

January 14, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
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The 80:20 election and what it means for India

Yogi Adityanath has never hidden his saffron robes in politics. Which is why it wasn’t a surprise when the Uttar Pradesh chief minister called the elections in India’s most...

November 19, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Hindutva versus Hinduism: Rahul-Khurshid Line Divides and Distracts

In this age of social media outrage, prime time noise and WhatsApp forwards, every word spoken or written in the public domain travels across the universe in real time...