sharad pawar – Breaking Views

July 2, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Pawar-Kishor Gameplan: In Search of a Unified Opposition

Chanakya may have lived in the fourth century BC but he keeps getting re-discovered in the twenty-first century. This relentless search for a modern-day Chanakya has seen union home...

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 8, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The tiger roars again

There is a story which BJP leader, the late Pramod Mahajan would happily relate about his alliance talks with Shiv Sena chieftain Bal Thackeray. In 1990, when the two...

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...

March 15, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi Vs All

In the mid-1990s, as VP Singh was scrambling to help form a non-BJP, non-Cong ‘Third Front’ government, we asked the former prime minister if such a ‘khichdi’ government was...

September 16, 2014
TeamRS
Video

Countdown to Maharashtra elections begins

Countdown to Maharashtra elections has begun, however, the picture is not clear yet. Shiv Sena-BJP seat-sharing negotiations in Maharashtra have not made much progress. Meanwhile, the alliance between the...