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  • June 26, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

A Government Still in Denial Mode

If  an extraordinary Lok Sabha verdict was meant to humble the country’s political leadership, it appears to have had just the opposite effect. The Modi government is acting as...
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  • June 13, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

Mandate shows limits of strongman politics

One of the great joys of watching a blockbuster movie is the intermission which often comes just when the plot is reaching a dramatic crescendo. It is during the...
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  • May 30, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

Ten key takeaways from the elections

After crisscrossing the country for the last eight weeks, here are 10 key takeaways from an election that reveal the strengths and weaknesses of Indian electoral democracy. One, if...
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  • May 16, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

M factor in the polls is the mahila voter

In the battle for 2024, the M factor has taken centre stage. Modi, Muslims, Mangalsutra (Hindu marital marker), and even mutton and machhli (fish) have become part of the...
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  • May 2, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

Low polling carries message for parties

Two rounds are done, five to go, here is the big question blowing in the excruciatingly hot summer wind this general election season. Despite the incessant drumbeat in TV...
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  • April 18, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

A referendum on Modi’s leadership

An electorate of a whopping 960 million plus, spread over 543 constituencies, and over a million booths in 28 states and eight Union territories are voting in an election...
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  • April 18, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

A referendum on Modi’s leadership

An electorate of a whopping 960 million plus, spread over 543 constituencies, and over a million booths in 28 states and eight Union territories are voting in an election...
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  • April 4, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

Limits of Opposition’s ‘save democracy’ plank

BJP versus Democracy — a huge banner at the Opposition “ Save Democracy” rally at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi was aiming to set the 2024 election agenda. The last...
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  • March 21, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

Elections 2024 is a match of unequals

The 2024 election bugle has been sounded but the traditional band-baaja buzz is missing. This could be partly because a general election is more a marathon than a sprint,...
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  • March 7, 2024
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
  • Columns

BJP’s push to bridge the North-South gap

From the sun-kissed beaches of Lakshadweep to temple-hopping across Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, is it any coincidence that Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has made four extended...
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Rajdeep Sardesai, 59, is senior journalist, author, tv news presenter. His book 2014: the election that changed India is a national best seller that has been translated into half a dozen languages. Currently the consulting editor and lead news anchor of the India Today group, he has 36 years of journalistic experience in print and television. He was the founder editor of the IBN 18 network which included CNN IBN, IBN 7 and IBN Lokmat.

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