• October 16, 2015
  • Rajdeep Sardesai

The Silence of Mumbai

Long before Sudheendra Kulkarni, there were the likes of Nikhil Wagle and your humble columnist. In 1991, the Shiv Sena dug up the Wankhede cricket pitch to protest against...
  • November 28, 2012
  • Rajdeep Sardesai

A polarising figure

‘Don’t insult me by calling me a politician. I am a political cartoonist!’ warned the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, lighting up a pipe, glass of white wine in...
  • December 14, 2009
  • Rajdeep Sardesai

Drowning things out

Having grown up in the megalopolis, I have an obvious emotional attachment to Mumbai. Which is why when at a studio discussion this week, when a panelist referred to...
  • January 23, 2008
  • Rajdeep Sardesai

Married to the mob

Last Saturday, as India was celebrating a famous cricket victory over Australia in Perth, NDTV’s Ahmedabad office was ransacked by a mob calling itself the Hindu Samrajya Sena. The...