July, 2017 - Sagarika Ghose

July 31, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Decoding Gujarat’s ‘resort’ politics

If Bihar’s business is politics, then Gujarat’s business is business. The sharpest Gujarati minds have usually gone into ‘dhandha’: the stock market ups and downs worry the average Gujarati...

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...

July 24, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Cricket’s chak de moment

In the early 1980s, Diana Eduljee, who was then the Indian women’s cricket team star bowler, would bowl at the Cricket Club of India nets in Mumbai. “Whatever you...

July 21, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Bengal, Kerala: the BJP’s last frontiers

When a few days ago, Delhi BJP leader Nupur Sharma tweeted pictures of the 2002 Gujarat riots and attempted to pass them off as Bengal 2017, she was only...

July 8, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

An abusive Phone Call

Why aren’t you in Basirhat, you bloody xxxx Muslim supporter, an anonymous caller asked me last night. I normally don’t respond to the abusive callers but for some reason...

July 7, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

A tale of two ‘events’

This is a tale of two distinct events: One staged by the common citizen, the other by our VVIPs. The ‘Not in My Name’ protests were held in several...