Rajdeep Sardesai

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Measuring Democracy: TV and polling in India

“So why should we be paying so much if we cant get the exact number…

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Pakistan is neither heaven nor hell

At a time when actor-politician Ramya has bizarrely had a sedition case filed against her…

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Dil maange More: a sports revolution

Kheloge kudoge to hoge kharab, padhoge likhoge to banoge nawab (if you play, you will…

Heaven of Freedom

A poem/prayer for the 70th independence day (inspired by Tagore) Where the mind is without…

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Gau Rakshaks are Anti Dalit: why BJP should worry

One of the lesser known facts perhaps of the 2002 Gujarat riots is that Dalits…

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Why I will not speak on the Arnab-Barkha ‘war’

A website rang me up last evening asking if I would like to express an…

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25 years of Manmohanomics: Thank you Doc!

“I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or…

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Terror has an address

‘So, why is it that every terror attack involves a Muslim?’ It’s a question that’s…

Burhan Wani and Patriot Games

During the 1983 Falklands war, a member of the Margaret Thatcher government angrily described the…

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Don’t write off Smriti Irani

Life on Twitter can be nasty, brutish and short. Which is perhaps why within moments…