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March 4, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Smriti Irani: time to course correct

Sharad Pawar is a man of few words, Smriti Irani a woman with a vast vocabulary. Last week, when the HRD minister delivered a remarkable “performance” in a Parliament...

February 20, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

हां, मैं राष्ट्र-विरोधी हूं, क्योंकि…

नब्बे के दशक में देश की राजनीति धर्मनिरपेक्षता बनाम छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्षता में विभाजित थी ; अब एक और अधिक घातक विभाजन ‘राष्ट्रवादी’ अौर ‘राष्ट्र-विरोधी’ ताकतों के आधार पर करने...

February 19, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Yes, I am anti-national

In the 1990s, the country’s polity was divided by secular versus pseudo secular faultlines; now, another divide, and frankly far more insidious, is sought to be created between ‘national’...

February 5, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

One year of Kejriwal govt

A few years ago, I was sitting next to Manohar Parrikar on a flight. The defence minister was then Goa chief minister and was travelling economy, dressed in trademark...

January 26, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Cast aside on Campus

At the height of the FTII agitation last year, a senior minister rang up to complain at what he termed the “excessive” focus on the student protests. “These are...

January 24, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi Pak policy: maturity or duplicity?

Heads of our soldiers are being cut but we are feeding their prime minister chicken biryani. This country is ruled by weak leaders,” Narendra Modi speech in May 2013....

January 22, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi should alter style, Rahul substance

News channels always face a ‘dharam sankat’ when Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi speak at the same time. In the last few years the tendency has been to relentlessly...

January 19, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Pragmatic Approach Needed

If the first week of a year determines the next 365 days, then the Narendra Modi government is facing its biggest test yet in 2016. The terror attack in...

December 25, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

A look at our netas’ 2016 resolutions

It’s that time of the year: The bells are ringing and carols are being sung. Since this is my last column of 2015, maybe it’s time to look ahead...

December 24, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Azad: Hero or Zero?

My cricket memories of Kirti Azad are of him clean bowling Ian Botham with a ball that never left the ground during India’s semi final triumph in the historic...