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July 5, 2008
Rajdeep Sardesai
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In for a peasant surprise?

For someone who had finally been embraced by his party and anointed its new poster boy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram seemed awfully truculent a day after the Union Budget....

February 20, 2008
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Reverse sweepstakesC

My father was obviously born in the wrong generation. For his first Test for the country in 1961, he got a cheque of Rs. 150. When he was part...

January 23, 2008
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Married to the mob

Last Saturday, as India was celebrating a famous cricket victory over Australia in Perth, NDTV’s Ahmedabad office was ransacked by a mob calling itself the Hindu Samrajya Sena. The...

December 24, 2007
Rajdeep Sardesai
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The new Advani?

In this age of instant punditry, it’s often easier to arrive at conclusions without even attempting an analysis. When the person in question is Narendra Modi, then it becomes...

December 5, 2007
Rajdeep Sardesai
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All hail the party-pooper

Dev Kant Barooah’s singular contribution to Indian democracy was his coronation of Indira Gandhi as the Empress of India with his infamous remark: “India is Indira, and Indira is...