Blog – Page 50 – Breaking Views

February 25, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

BJP has clear edge in UP battle

In the narrow lane from the Hanumangarhi temple to the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, the local shopkeepers are visibly upset. Their shops will be demolished as the town...

February 19, 2022
TeamRS
Video

Decoding the Muslim vote bank

Is there a Muslim vote bank in this country and does it have the power to influence the elections? I ask this from Lucknow where I am presently observing...

February 12, 2022
TeamRS
Video

Change Is In The Air

Its election time and I have just returned after spending much of the last two weeks in Goa and Punjab. Now that I am back, I am being asked...

February 11, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Immortal Power of being Lata Mangeshkar

It was in Pakistan at the peak of the Kargil war that I realized the power of the voice of Lata Mangeshkar. We had spent a harrowing day in...

February 5, 2022
TeamRS
Video

All in the Family

For years now, the strongest critique that the BJP has had against the Congress and several regional parties is that they are family run fiefdoms, the parties of ‘Shehzadas’.

January 28, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The AAP factor

If there was an award for the most successful political start up of the last decade, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would be the obvious front-runner (the YSRCP in...

January 24, 2022
TeamRS
Video

Goan With The Wind

This week, my focus is on the deeply depressing politics in the smallest state in the battle for 2022: Goa, one of my many home states, a state that...

January 15, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Remembering Kamal Khan

‘Kamal was news tv before the circus took over’ It’s been a pretty miserable Makar Sankranti. Early this morning a call from my old NDTV friend Manish Kumar was...

January 15, 2022
TeamRS
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BJP’s OBC Challenge

Adityanath’s 80:20 formulation comes at a time when the BJP is battling to retain its crucial non-Yadav OBC voters who comprise nearly 35 per cent of the electorate. The...

January 14, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The 80:20 election and what it means for India

Yogi Adityanath has never hidden his saffron robes in politics. Which is why it wasn’t a surprise when the Uttar Pradesh chief minister called the elections in India’s most...