Nitish Kumar – Breaking Views

August 10, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Bihar: the Last battleground

If political gymnastics was an Olympic sport, then Nitish Kumar would undoubtedly be a strong contender for the gold medal. After being sworn in as Bihar chief minister for...

September 26, 2020
TeamRS
Video

Sushant, Caste, Covid Or Vikas; What Matters Most To The Bihar Voters?

The Election Commission of India has announced the schedule and the dates for the Bihar Election 2020. Bihar Election 2020 will be held in three phases from October 28...

August 1, 2020
TeamRS
Video

Sushant Rajput’s Death Becomes Political Row, What’s Its Link With Bihar Polls?

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is “willing” to recommend a CBI probe into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, a minister in his government told ThePrint Thursday...

August 3, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Corruption and Communalism: No False Binary please!

“We are coming together to defend secularism by defeating Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and the RSS,” proclaimed Lalu Prasad with typical bombast in September 2015 just ahead of the...

July 28, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

The six lies of Bihar

No political journalist’s education is complete without understanding Bihar. If Mumbai’s business is business, then Bihar’s business is politics! In no other part of the country — not even...

October 30, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Lalu-Nitish joshi: twist in a Bihar tale

There is a wonderfully poignant story, possibly apocryphal, about the original Hindi cinema ‘phenomenon’ Rajesh Khanna that reveals the limits of superstardom. During his peak years, Khanna would hold...

October 17, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi, Bihar And Reforms

A year is an eternity in Indian politics: a year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could literally walk on water. His remarkable 2014 general election win had given him...

July 24, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi vs Nitish secularism debate: Both types are old stereotypes

It was a picture that perhaps best captured the angularities of Indian secularism: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien in a topi even as Delhi...

September 15, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

Feeding on Breasts

I have met Deepika Padukone just once: it was the CNN IBN Indian of the year awards last year when she won the special achievement prize for having acted...