Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Test’ Now
For four years and a bit, every time there has been a major state election, the dominant narrative is to call it a ‘test’ for prime minister Narendra Modi...
Is Modi government being unnerved by Rafale ‘war’?
Politics in the media age is increasingly about perception management which in turn is about shaping the narrative to your advantage. The UPA 2 government lost the plot when...
Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story – Literati’18 – IIT Delhi
Rajdeep Sardesai is a consulting editor at the India Today group, and hosts India Today Television. Here he talks about his book Democracy’s XI: the story of post-independence cricket...
Kaamdar vs Naamdar: is Cong falling into a BJP trap?
One of the more persistent criticisms against the Narendra Modi government has been that far too many of its ministers seem to have very little work to do and...
Will Rafale 2019 be Bofors 1989?
Rahul Gandhi was just seventeen years old when the Bofors gun payoff scandal first exploded, a corruption charge that would tar his father Rajiv Gandhi’s reputation and eventually push...
Tracking India in the Modi era – The-Ken Interview
“When sensation has replaced sense or noise has replaced news, you know, you feel—I don’t want to say that, but I feel almost an anachronism. Ancient, wrestling with self-doubt.”...
How the deep divisions in society can be bridged?
Accepting that the divisions exists is the first step. Know more in my book 'Newsman: Tracking India in the Modi Era': http://bit.ly/Newsman