Shiv Sena – Breaking Views – Rajdeep Sardesai

June 30, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Shiv Sena’s ‘Maha’ battle for Survival

‘Whoever becomes chief minister, the remote control will always be with me.” Sitting on a silver throne-like armchair, sipping a glass of white wine, that was Bal Thackeray’s...

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
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Neta Nagri: Pragya Thakur पर Amit Shah को क्या बोला था Arun Jaitley ने और Uddhav, Devendra और Ajit में झूठा कौन?

This week on Neta Nagri The Lallantop Editor Saurabh Dwivedi discussed Rajdeep Sardesai on Maharashtra government formation as Uddhav Thackeray finally formed government. The Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress...

November 21, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Limits of Militant Hindutva

It is not without irony that barely days after the long-pending Ayodhya verdict was delivered by the Supreme Court that the Shiv Sena broke its alliance with the BJP....

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...

October 16, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Silence of Mumbai

Long before Sudheendra Kulkarni, there were the likes of Nikhil Wagle and your humble columnist. In 1991, the Shiv Sena dug up the Wankhede cricket pitch to protest against...

October 17, 2014
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Why Modi-Shah duo will win Maharashtra

Political judgements based on opinion polls are hazardous at the best of times, but when there is a five-cornered fight like in Maharashtra, pollsters are often whistling in the...

November 28, 2012
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

A polarising figure

‘Don’t insult me by calling me a politician. I am a political cartoonist!’ warned the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, lighting up a pipe, glass of white wine in...