UP: ten takeaways
It’s the half way mark in the crucial election battle in UP. It is impossible to accurately predict a 20 crore state’s voting preferences after a few visits, but...
Elections On My Plate | Exclusive Report From Lucknow
To understand vox populi on the Uttar Pradesh assembly election, India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai takes you through the ‘Land of Awadh’. We meet voters to understand will the alliance...
The UP Muslim ‘vote bank’ predicament
The complicated and controversial notion of a Muslim vote bank stretches back to the first general elections in 1952. The post-Partition face of the Indian Muslims, Maulana Azad, was...
Congress will remain a C team player
Five years is an eternity in Indian politics. As Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav beamed beatifically into the cameras last weekend, the mind was thrown back to 2012 when...
It’s now ‘Modi vs All’
The BJP and the Shiv Sena were once seen as ‘natural allies’ but life for the original saffron alliance is not quite the same in the age of Narendra...
Will politics shrink in 2017?
We live, to put it mildly, in “interesting times”. This is an age where TV family serials have given way to political soap operas: Are Akhilesh and Mulayam at...
Happy New Year!
A few days ago, while on vacation, I got a throat viral. Illness on holiday can be a real bummer: you can’t really enjoy the good times when your...
Has Modi done an Indira?
Last month in an interview I asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi if she would concede that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a similar personality to Indira Gandhi, tough and...
Public Lecture by Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai
Media stalwart, author and Consulting Editor of the India Today group, Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai delivering a insightful lecture on ‘The Ethics and Professional Obligations of Journalists in a Democracy,’...
Jayalalithaa: FIlm star politician number one!
As an MP, actor Govinda had one of the worst attendance records in Parliament: He attended less than 10% of the sittings in the Lok Sabha and spoke for...