Arvind Kejriwal – Breaking Views

November 30, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Gujarat’s battle for runner up spot: AAP Vs Cong

Gujarat elections 2022 is a unique contest: the winner is almost certain but the real interest lies in who will be the runner-up. Until the dramatic and rather noisy...

January 28, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The AAP factor

If there was an award for the most successful political start up of the last decade, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) would be the obvious front-runner (the YSRCP in...

October 8, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Rahul versus Mamata versus Arvind battle

It is argued, often justifiably, that a large section of the news media, especially prime time tv, spends far more time and energy questioning the opposition than it does...

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...

September 1, 2019
TeamRS
Video

Narendra Modi के मंत्री Arun Jaitley का मृत्यु से पहले notebandi पर क्या खुलासा सामने आया

In this episode Saurabh and Rajdeep talk about Arun Jaitley’s role in demonetisation. Arun Jaitley’s famous argument with Ram Jethmalani on the issue of defamation case against Arvind Kejriwal....

April 28, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

AAP and the end of Hope

On the day the exit polls for the Delhi municipal elections were predicting a BJP landslide, AAP spokespersons were in a defiant mood, blaming the EVMs for a looming...

January 6, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Will politics shrink in 2017?

We live, to put it mildly, in “interesting times”. This is an age where TV family serials have given way to political soap operas: Are Akhilesh and Mulayam at...

November 3, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Tele-democracy, Trump and Modi

The latest opinion polls in the US are suggesting a much tighter race for the country’s presidency but the debate in Washington DC, at least, has slowly shifted from...

September 16, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

AAP at the crossroads

Writing obituaries of political parties can be a hazardous business. In July 2014, an international publication invited me to write an article on the political demise of AAP. This...