Narendra Modi – Page 12 – Breaking Views

February 17, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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The UP Muslim ‘vote bank’ predicament

The complicated and controversial notion of a Muslim vote bank stretches back to the first general elections in 1952. The post-Partition face of the Indian Muslims, Maulana Azad, was...

January 20, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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It’s now ‘Modi vs All’

The BJP and the Shiv Sena were once seen as ‘natural allies’ but life for the original saffron alliance is not quite the same in the age of Narendra...

January 6, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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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...

December 23, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Has Modi done an Indira?

Last month in an interview I asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi if she would concede that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a similar personality to Indira Gandhi, tough and...

November 25, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Demonetisation: Modi risks winning battle, losing war

For those still surprised by prime minister Narendra Modi’s audacious demonetisation gamble, the past maybe a useful guide. In 2007, just ahead of the Gujarat assembly elections, Mr Modi...

November 3, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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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...

October 14, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Stop the ‘marketing’ of surgical strikes

In the 1980s when Rajiv Gandhi had chosen to attack his opponents by warning that “hum apne virodhiyon ko unki naani yaad dila denge” (we will make our opponents...

September 30, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Modi’s firm message but can war-mongers be kept at bay?

In the universe of the 24×7 media, there is literally no place to hide. Which is why it should come as no surprise that a video of Prime Minister...

July 8, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Don’t write off Smriti Irani

Life on Twitter can be nasty, brutish and short. Which is perhaps why within moments of the news breaking that Smriti Irani had been shifted out of the HRD...

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...