Columns – Page 26 – Breaking Views

June 10, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Netas and the love for land

In Maharashtra, and arguably across the country, the state is increasingly identified with real estate. Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan tells a story of how passing any legislation...

June 4, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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The Greatest

I never saw Muhammad Ali fight on television, never saw his great fights with Joe Frazier on live tv. We didn’t have multiple sports channels in the 1970s to...

May 28, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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PM Modi and the TINA factor

“We will change the face of India in ten years,” thundered Narendra Modi in a victory speech in Vadodra on May 16, 2014 within hours of his famous general...

May 13, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Amma and Didi: Cult of the ‘Supremos’

On the face of it, Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee are as different from each other as idli sambar is from macher jhol. The Tamil Nadu chief minister is the...

April 29, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Terror and politics

“Where you stand is determined by where you sit,” remarked Congress MP Shashi Tharoor recently, in a reference to the changing positions of political parties when in and out...

April 15, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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IPL is the soft target for water crisis

“Everybody loves a good drought” was award-winning journalist P Sainath’s rather intriguingly titled book a few years ago on rural poverty. In the last few weeks, even prime time...

April 1, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Towards a ‘Congress Mukt’ Bharat ?

We want a Congress Mukt Bharat,” thundered Narendra Modi in the 2014 general election campaign, a slogan echoed repeatedly BJP president, Amit Shah. The declared goal was not just...

March 18, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Art of Living and Political Loyalty

It was a picture that radiated temporal Lutyens-land power: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar flanked by half a dozen Union Cabinet ministers, including the finance minister, the BJP president, the...

March 4, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Smriti Irani: time to course correct

Sharad Pawar is a man of few words, Smriti Irani a woman with a vast vocabulary. Last week, when the HRD minister delivered a remarkable “performance” in a Parliament...

February 20, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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हां, मैं राष्ट्र-विरोधी हूं, क्योंकि…

नब्बे के दशक में देश की राजनीति धर्मनिरपेक्षता बनाम छद्म धर्मनिरपेक्षता में विभाजित थी ; अब एक और अधिक घातक विभाजन ‘राष्ट्रवादी’ अौर ‘राष्ट्र-विरोधी’ ताकतों के आधार पर करने...