Narendra Modi – Page 6 – Breaking Views

April 10, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Corona Challenge is about Team India not Brand Modi

In the build up to the 2019 general elections, the BJP’s most potent campaign plank was to pose a direct question: ‘Modi versus who?’. By foregrounding the leadership issue,...

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...

January 17, 2020
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

MS University to JNU: Gujarat model goes national

Long before Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), there was Maharaja Sayajirao (MS) University, Vadodara. Named after one of the most enlightened rulers of princely India, the university was seen as...

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...

November 30, 2019
TeamRS
Book Launches

What does 2019 mean for Indian politics?

India Today brings you special political debate based Rajdeep Sardesai’s book, ‘2019: How Modi Won India’. 2019 is a remarkable year in Indian politics, with Narendra Modi becoming the...

November 5, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

It’s the Opposition, stupid!

So here is the paradox of our times. Read the business pages, and there is a fair chance that you will get the impression of a Narendra Modi government...

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...

September 14, 2019
TeamRS
Video

Neta Nagri: 100 Days of Modi Government

The Lallantop Editor Saurabh Dwivedi in conversation with Senior Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. This week on Neta Nagri we discuss Narendra Modi government’s announcements for cow livestock vaccination scheme in...

September 13, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Rise of Jodi Number One

A hundred days and counting into the Modi government, whats the biggest difference between Modi 1.0 and Modi 2.0? The answer to that question doesn’t lie so much in...

August 15, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Article 370 as ‘political’ equivalent of DeMo

In an impassioned speech in the Lok Sabha during the Article 370 debate, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor – who purely on his parliamentary skills should be Congress’s leader in...