Rajdeep Sardesai – Page 31 – Breaking Views

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...

June 24, 2016
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The Muck Of Indian Politics

History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce, but in Indian politics, the farce plays out so frequently that the tragic element is obscured. Four recent instances highlight...

June 10, 2016
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In Maharashtra, and arguably across the country, the state is increasingly identified with real estate. Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan tells a story of how passing any legislation...

June 4, 2016
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The Greatest

I never saw Muhammad Ali fight on television, never saw his great fights with Joe Frazier on live tv. We didn’t have multiple sports channels in the 1970s to...

May 28, 2016
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PM Modi and the TINA factor

“We will change the face of India in ten years,” thundered Narendra Modi in a victory speech in Vadodra on May 16, 2014 within hours of his famous general...