Rajdeep Sardesai

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The Karnataka ‘nataka’: ten takeaways

15th May 2018 will go down in history as a day when Indian politics rewrote…

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Karnataka’s 20-20 election

Karnataka is, arguably, India’s most beautiful state. Few states can match its rich diversity: from…

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Battle for Karnataka : Ten Takeaways

Battle for Karnataka : ten takeaways. Ten days in Karnataka over two extended trips still…

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The Modi challenge: Aspirations Vs Mutinies

If prime minister Narendra Modi was not a politician, he could probably be a feel-good…

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Decoding the fake news debate

Smriti Irani has an uncanny knack of giving it back as good as she gets.…

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Its Just Not Cricket

“We were desperate,” admitted Australian captain Steve Smith when pushed to offer an explanation as…

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The end of a love affair

I am not quite sure when I first fell in love with cricket but the…

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Modi Vs All

In the mid-1990s, as VP Singh was scrambling to help form a non-BJP, non-Cong ‘Third…

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The Journalist as Neta

Should journalists enter Rajya Sabha on a political party ticket? That’s a question that gnaws…

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Battle for North East: Ten takeaways

Maybe it’s the skill of prime minister Modi to convert every state election into a…