2021 - Sagarika Ghose

April 17, 2021
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Maha Kumbh Faith Is Not Above Covid

#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep A few days ago, a well known politician sent me a whatsapp message: ‘are you seeing the pictures at the Kumbh Mela in Hardwar, no masks, no social...

April 11, 2021
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Crazy Kiya Re ‘New’ India in Crazy Times

#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’ : Charles Dickens...

April 9, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Crazy Kiya Re: ‘new’ India in crazy times

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of ...

April 4, 2021
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Election Commission: Neutral Umpire or Twelfth Man?

#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep This is election season in India and I want to raise a contentious issue by posing a simple direct question: is the Election Commission a neutral umpire...

March 26, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

‘Aata Majhi Satakli’: the Singham Syndrome

‘Minister log mere peeche aur police log mere jeb mein rehte hai” (Ministers follow me and the police is in my pocket) The Hindi film industry has a unique...

March 21, 2021
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Khaki ‘Gangs’ of Mumbai

#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep Today’s topic is the mysterious Ambani bomb scare case that has sparked so much controversy. Actually, I would rather call it the Mansukh Hiran case because at the...

March 14, 2021
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‘Pro Muslim’ Party?: Congress’s ‘Secular’ Crisis

#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep At an India Today media conclave in early 2018, Sonia Gandhi made a rather candid confession: the BJP, she said, had managed to convince many people that the...

March 12, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The hypocrisy of India’s secular polity

At an India Today media conclave in early 2018, Sonia Gandhi made a rather candid confession: the BJP, she said, had managed to convince many people that the Congress...

March 10, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Dilip Sardesai: Stamping his legacy in the joyful islands of sun and sand

The first month in high school can often be unnerving and discomfiting in a new environment. As a six-year-old stepping into Mumbai’s Campion School in January 1971, I was...

March 8, 2021
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

50 years of Sunny Days

I am a 70s kid, or like to at least believe I am one. The 70s were India and Indira Gandhi’s decade of socialism and the emergency, which meant...