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February 15, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Will 220 be the new 272?

February is arguably the nicest month weather-wise in the national capital: the icy Himalayan wind gives way to a gentler cool breeze signaling a gradual change of seasons. This...

November 9, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The ‘Congress-ification’ of the BJP

The image was telling: Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad effusively welcoming the newly-inducted BJP member, Mukul Roy with flowers at the party headquarters. A former Trinamool Congress leader,...

April 28, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

AAP and the end of Hope

On the day the exit polls for the Delhi municipal elections were predicting a BJP landslide, AAP spokespersons were in a defiant mood, blaming the EVMs for a looming...

April 14, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Cow politics: Mahatma’s India vs Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra

There are many joys of living in Goa, but its gastronomic pluralism is easily one of the tiny state’s biggest attractions. On the day that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat...

March 12, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi 24 X 7, 365 days

In the final leg of the 2014 general elections, Narendra Modi dramatically announced in a rally, “Yeh dil maange more”. It was a quintessential Modi soundbite: the BJP’s internal...

February 17, 2017
Team RS
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Elections On My Plate | Exclusive Report From Lucknow

To understand vox populi on the Uttar Pradesh assembly election, India Today’s Rajdeep Sardesai takes you through the ‘Land of Awadh’. We meet voters to understand will the alliance...

August 4, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Gau Rakshaks are Anti Dalit: why BJP should worry

One of the lesser known facts perhaps of the 2002 Gujarat riots is that Dalits were at the fore of much of the violence against Muslims in Ahmedabad. When...

June 24, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Muck Of Indian Politics

History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce, but in Indian politics, the farce plays out so frequently that the tragic element is obscured. Four recent instances highlight...

April 1, 2016
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Towards a ‘Congress Mukt’ Bharat ?

We want a Congress Mukt Bharat,” thundered Narendra Modi in the 2014 general election campaign, a slogan echoed repeatedly BJP president, Amit Shah. The declared goal was not just...

June 11, 2015
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Silver-Haired Sikandar Bakht

Long before Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, there was Sikandar Bakht ...