Amit Shah – Breaking Views – Rajdeep Sardesai

November 8, 2024
TeamRS
Books

2024: The Election that Surprised India

2024: The Election That Surprised India brings to life the inside story of a dramatic period in Indian politics and society. Every twist and turn is revealed in an...

October 7, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The contrasting styles of leadership in BJP and Congress

Amidst the din over the Congress president election, almost unnoticed was a news item quoting BJP sources that JP Nadda would get an extension as BJP president in January....

April 22, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Bulldozer with an ominous message

“You can get quite far in a democracy if you can convince a majority that they are victims of a minority, and that only you can protect them.’ Garry...

July 2, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Pawar-Kishor Gameplan: In Search of a Unified Opposition

Chanakya may have lived in the fourth century BC but he keeps getting re-discovered in the twenty-first century. This relentless search for a modern-day Chanakya has seen union home...

May 7, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Covid 2.0 to Bengal: Wake Up Call for Jodi number one

For the last seven years, they have been projected as India’s jodi number one: prime minister Narendra Modi as the larger than life strongman leader and home minister Amit...

February 26, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Opposition-Mukt Bharat?

Long before Puducherry, there was Goa. In 1994, riding on the Ram Janmabhoomi wave, the BJP won four seats for the first time in the 40 member Goa assembly....

July 9, 2020
TeamRS
Video

The Return of Amit Shah

What does the ‘return’ of Amit Shah to the Covid fight centre stage indicate? Can the home minister re-invent his persona for Covid times? Or will politics remain as...

February 13, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

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...

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...

October 11, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

There is Fadnavis Only

A curious election littered with many firsts is taking place in Maharashtra. A 49 year old Brahmin from Nagpur appears set to be re-elected for a second five year...