Blog - Sagarika Ghose

September 1, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Who will speak up for Hemant Karkare?

Asking inconvenient questions is what professional journalists are meant to do, so let me ask it upfront: Was Hemant Karkare, the Maharashtra police officer who was “martyred” during the...

August 23, 2017
Team RS
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Breaking down news: a conversation with rajdeep sardesai

August 17, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Where really is ‘new’ India?

One of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s great skills as a political communicator has been his ability to constantly summon up catchy buzzwords. If 2014 was the year of ‘acche...

August 9, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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When Politics is ‘War’

As a 24×7 news journalist, late nights are an occupational hazard. After almost three decades as a newsman, you think you’ve seen it all. And yet, when a Rajya...

August 3, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Corruption and Communalism: No False Binary please!

“We are coming together to defend secularism by defeating Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and the RSS,” proclaimed Lalu Prasad with typical bombast in September 2015 just ahead of the...

July 31, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
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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
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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
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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
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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...