Karnataka Elections – Breaking Views

June 7, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Karnataka to Kairana: a Template for 2019

A by-election is a bit like a school monthly test: the marks don’t count for anything during the final exam. Which is why the opposition celebrations after besting the...

May 23, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

From Raj Dharma to Chanakya-neeti: is BJP a party with a difference?

In 1996, soon after LK Advani resigned as an MP over his name surfacing in the ‘hawala’ diaries, we asked the original BJP ideological mascot why he had taken...

May 16, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

The Karnataka ‘nataka’: ten takeaways

15th May 2018 will go down in history as a day when Indian politics rewrote the Harold Wilson oft-used quote that a week is a long time in politics....

May 11, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Karnataka’s 20-20 election

Karnataka is, arguably, India’s most beautiful state. Few states can match its rich diversity: from the wondrous Karwar coastline to the verdant green hills of Coorg, from the wildlife...

May 10, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Battle for Karnataka : Ten Takeaways

Battle for Karnataka : ten takeaways. Ten days in Karnataka over two extended trips still leaves you with the stamp of an ‘election tourist’ but then that is my...