Rajdeep Sardesai – Page 29 – Breaking Views

September 9, 2016
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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 of seats right?” the news media baron asked imperiously. The Delhi election results had...

September 2, 2016
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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 for claiming “Pakistan is not hell”, let me test the waters of sedition by...

August 19, 2016
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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 be wasting your life, but if you study you will be a king). That...

August 14, 2016
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Heaven of Freedom

A poem/prayer for the 70th independence day (inspired by Tagore) Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, Where no one tells me what to...

August 4, 2016
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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 were at the fore of much of the violence against Muslims in Ahmedabad. When...

July 29, 2016
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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 opinion on the ongoing ‘war’ between Arnab Goswami and Barkha Dutt on tv and...

July 22, 2016
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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 for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament”: Manmohan Singh in January 2014 announcing...

July 15, 2016
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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 asked with rising anger after every terror attack. It’s not an invalid question in...

July 11, 2016
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Burhan Wani and Patriot Games

During the 1983 Falklands war, a member of the Margaret Thatcher government angrily described the BBC as the ‘Stateless People’s Broadcasting Corporation’ because it referred to the forces as...

July 8, 2016
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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 of the news breaking that Smriti Irani had been shifted out of the HRD...