Blog – Page 76 – Breaking Views

February 13, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Kejriwal for Delhi, but not for India yet

The emergence of Arvind Kejriwal has undoubtedly been the start-up story in Indian politics of the last decade just as the inexorable rise of Narendra Modi has been the...

January 17, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

MS University to JNU: Gujarat model goes national

Long before Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), there was Maharaja Sayajirao (MS) University, Vadodara. Named after one of the most enlightened rulers of princely India, the university was seen as...

January 9, 2020
TeamRS
Video

Rajdeep Sardesai’s take on JNU violence

January 4, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Angry Women of Shaheen Bagh

In normal times, Delhi’s Shaheen Baug area would be in danger of falling off the city map, a dingy, congested locality with open drains and dangerously dangling power cable...

December 19, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

CAA-NRC: Keeping the communal pot boiling

Union home minister Amit Shah has always worn his majoritarian outlook as a badge of pride. As a Gujarat MLA from Sarkhej – a Ahmedabad constituency with a large...

December 6, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Secret of Pawar Play

There are few Indian politicians as inscrutable as Sharad Pawar. The old political jungle saying in Mumbai is what ‘Pawar thinks, what he says and what he does, are...

November 30, 2019
TeamRS
Book Launches

What does 2019 mean for Indian politics?

India Today brings you special political debate based Rajdeep Sardesai’s book, ‘2019: How Modi Won India’. 2019 is a remarkable year in Indian politics, with Narendra Modi becoming the...

November 30, 2019
TeamRS
Video

Neta Nagri: Pragya Thakur पर Amit Shah को क्या बोला था Arun Jaitley ने और Uddhav, Devendra और Ajit में झूठा कौन?

This week on Neta Nagri The Lallantop Editor Saurabh Dwivedi discussed Rajdeep Sardesai on Maharashtra government formation as Uddhav Thackeray finally formed government. The Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress...

November 21, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Limits of Militant Hindutva

It is not without irony that barely days after the long-pending Ayodhya verdict was delivered by the Supreme Court that the Shiv Sena broke its alliance with the BJP....

November 8, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The tiger roars again

There is a story which BJP leader, the late Pramod Mahajan would happily relate about his alliance talks with Shiv Sena chieftain Bal Thackeray. In 1990, when the two...