Blog – Page 142 – Breaking Views

October 26, 2014
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Book Interviews

Pritam Munde makes history in the Beed LS election

Gopinath Munde’s younger daughter, Pritam Munde, has won the Beed Lok Sabha seat with an almost 7 lakh vote margin, which has never been seen before in the country....

October 26, 2014
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Book Interviews

BJP Dilemma: Jat or non-Jat face as CM for Haryana?

Here is the dilemma that the BJP faces in Haryana – with front runner Manohar Lal Khattar being a non-Jat and the region is known for its caste dynamics....

October 26, 2014
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Book Interviews

Unsporting bureaucracy destroying Hockey in India?

Indian hockey suffers a setback after Terry Walsh, the coach of the Indian hockey team that won gold at the recent Asian Games has resigned from his position. He...

October 26, 2014
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Book Interviews

Has India failed the Swacch Bharat campaign?

PM Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to make India clean seems to have gone for a toss after Diwali celebrations left heaps of garbage, plastic wrappings, and cracker peels on...

October 26, 2014
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Book Interviews, Book Launches

Interview with Omar Abdullah

In this episode, we interview Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah, and bring you up to date with the other top stories of the day.

October 26, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Interview

A Book is not a tweet

We live in a world of 140 characters; where twitter is the new conversation, where attention spans are often reduced to a nano-second, where a 15 second soundbite is...

October 25, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Interview

The Birth of a Book

Two days ago, I received the first copy of my book. I must confess holding the first copy was a bit like lifting a new born child, utterly joyful....

October 24, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

The Healing Touch

I have followed Narendra Modi's political career since the Ram Janmabhoomi rath yatra in 1990. Through good times and bad, what has always marked him out is a sense...

October 22, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

The Death of an Editor

In 1992, I had a chance to visit the United States as part of a journalist exchange programme. Among my travel stops was the newsroom of The Washington Post....

October 21, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

Pawar-play

Yesterday, I rang up Sharad Pawar to seek an interview on the Maharashtra verdict. Pawar spoke gently as ever, but refused the request "You called the NCP a cash...