Politics – Breaking Views – Rajdeep Sardesai

April 8, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Why two nations bowled out two prominent netas

These aren’t the best of times for cricketers turned netas in the sub-continent. In Pakistan, Imran Khan has been forced out of the prime ministerial chair after losing a...

January 6, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

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 11, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Disruption agenda may send Winter Session towards deep freeze

The notion of ‘badla’, or revenge, has always had a special place in the Indian imagination: Remember all those Hindi films that centred around the idea of vengeance or...

November 27, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

‘Intolerance’ and Khans

In his autobiography, the original Hindi film superstar Dilip Kumar writes of how he got his screen name. It was the Bombay Talkies owner Devika Rani who told him,...

November 24, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Great Indian Election: Do elections change a country?

The former British prime minister Harold Wilson once said a week is along time in politics. He was probably wrong.: In India, a weekend is enough as I have...

November 19, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Nehru, Ambedkar’s legacies shadowed by political partisanship

In 2012, we did a television show to identify the greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi (post 1947). The winner by some distance was Babasaheb Ambedkar; Jawaharlal Nehru just about...

October 20, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Mahabattle: Five Big Takeaways

a) Modi is a true Pan-Indian leader: the general elections propelled Modi from Gujarat chief minister into India’s neta number one; the state elections have...

September 23, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

Maha-battle

A Mahabharata is being played out in Maharashtra even before Election Day. For the BJP Shiv Sena alliance, it's all about kaun banega mukhya mantri. The saffron alliance...

September 17, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Uncategorized

Walking on Water

The BJP is beset with a familiar Indian trait of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Till Narendra Modi came along and used every available opportunity to...

September 9, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Book Reviews

Walk the Talk

It is now almost seven months since Delhi hasn't had an elected government. Arvind Kejriwal's act of political harakiri in February 2014 pushed the Lieutenant Governor into the spotlight....