Narendra Modi - Sagarika Ghose

March 14, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

When Pak-bashing becomes an Indian Election Issue

When Narendra Modi is on the campaign trail in his ‘janmabhoomi’ of Gujarat, his rabble-rousing rhetoric usually gets even more theatrical. Not surprisingly then, he chose a public rally...

March 11, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Ten Reasons why Mr Modi is in Pole Position to win 2019

The battle has well and truly begun, the election commission has sounded the bugle for elections 2019. Elections are both a marathon cum steeplechase with many crazy jumps and...

February 28, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

War games in election season

War is not a cricket match and an air strike should not be reduced to a political spectacle. But we are in election season which might explain the well-choreographed...

January 21, 2019
Team RS
Video

Mission 272: Why are the BJP and PM Narendra Modi so desperate to win Karnataka?

January 2, 2019
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Kaun Banega Pradhan Mantri? Game on!

As the temperatures sharply dip in the national capital, the political heat is rising. The BJP’s defeat in three Hindi heartland states means that we enter a big general...

December 20, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Why BJP should worry, not be in denial

In 2004, a few weeks before the general elections and a day after the Lucknow stampede in which 21 poor women were killed while collecting free saris, then prime...

October 25, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

CBI’s ‘War’: Gujarat Model comes to Delhi

In the 70 mm cacophonic build up to the 2014 general elections, a recurring theme was the hype around the so-called ‘Gujarat model’. The BJP’s narrative through the campaign...

September 27, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Is Modi government being unnerved by Rafale ‘war’?

Politics in the media age is increasingly about perception management which in turn is about shaping the narrative to your advantage. The UPA 2 government lost the plot when...

September 13, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Kaamdar vs Naamdar: is Cong falling into a BJP trap?

One of the more persistent criticisms against the Narendra Modi government has been that far too many of its ministers seem to have very little work to do and...

August 30, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Will Rafale 2019 be Bofors 1989?

Rahul Gandhi was just seventeen years old when the Bofors gun payoff scandal first exploded, a corruption charge that would tar his father Rajiv Gandhi’s reputation and eventually push...