Gujarat Elections - Sagarika Ghose

May 6, 2022
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

‘Revenge’ Politics and the Neta-Police nexus

“Converting our hard earned democracy into a police state is simply unthinkable and if the Assam police is thinking about the same, the same is perverse thinking..” Barpeta sessions...

December 19, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Gujarat: Urban-rural is split wide open

If there is any city that is seen to represent the public anger over demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax, it is Surat. Textile traders had shut shop...

December 11, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

The battle for Gujarat: Ten Takeaways

Having spent more than a week in Gujarat –a state that I regard as both karmabhoomi and Janmabhoomi –over three recent trips, here are ten takeaways from an election...

December 7, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

battle for Gujarat: BJP is winning election, losing narrative

It may be coincidental, but it is perhaps only appropriate that the Gujarat elections are being held in the week of the 25th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition....

November 24, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Elections above parliament

In the winter of 1994 when I first moved to Delhi from Mumbai, the chance to cover Parliament was a major attraction. Entering Central Hall and gazing at the...

October 27, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Dilli Dur Ast for Congress

As the seasons change, there is a spring in the step of the Congress which suggests that a long and harsh summer in the political wilderness maybe ending. Rahul...

November 14, 2012
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Advantage Modi

Predicting elections can be injurious to the health of journalists and pollsters, more so when there is still a month to go before voting. Even so, there is a...