Rajdeep Sardesai – Page 20 – Breaking Views

August 15, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
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The Chemistry of the Modi Cult

One of the biggest mistakes political journalists make is to often assess election trends based on talking to politicians. When Narendra Modi was Gujarat chief minister, any reporter who...

August 2, 2018
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Imran Khan: A Man of Many Parts

In December 2013, cricketer turned politician Imran Khan was in India for the Hindustan Times leadership summit. The Delhi election results had just been announced and Arvind Kejriwal had...

July 22, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Five Things we learnt in a No-Confidence Motion

1. Pappu can Hug Saala: this was never so much a No Confidence Motion (NCM) against the NDA (the ruling alliance always had the numbers) as much as a...

July 19, 2018
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The social media election is here!

Amit Shah is often credited as the BJP president who has converted Indian elections from routine local fights into an all-out life and death ‘war’. Little surprise then when...

July 16, 2018
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Blog

Sport Knows No Caste But…..

Few issues agitate Indians as much as caste. So when soon after France’s win at the World Cup, I tweeted about the remarkable multi-cultural identity of the French football...

July 8, 2018
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Blog

The Mumbai Story that Must be Told

Since everyone – or almost everyone – seems to have a Sanjay Dutt story to tell at the moment, here is my blast from the past. I was the...

July 4, 2018
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Columns

A ‘new’ Congress: from Arrogance to Accomodation

A simple photo-op can sometimes reveal the entire political picture. Last month, as Rahul Gandhi hosted an iftaar party, his high table did not include a single opposition party...

June 21, 2018
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Jammu versus Kashmir: a doomed alliance..

A few months after he had taken over as chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir in the spring of 2015, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed hosted a dinner for journalists in...

June 7, 2018
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Columns

Karnataka to Kairana: a Template for 2019

A by-election is a bit like a school monthly test: the marks don’t count for anything during the final exam. Which is why the opposition celebrations after besting the...

May 23, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

From Raj Dharma to Chanakya-neeti: is BJP a party with a difference?

In 1996, soon after LK Advani resigned as an MP over his name surfacing in the ‘hawala’ diaries, we asked the original BJP ideological mascot why he had taken...