Rajdeep Sardesai

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The importance of being Nitin Gadkari in a big election year

In February 1994, as I was preparing to leave Mumbai for Delhi, a senior professional…

Behenji Needed More than Behen

This is the season for opinion polls with hyper-ventilating TV anchors throwing a volley of…

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Remembering George Fernandes, the original political rebel

We were on a flight to Patna in early 2005 and I was sitting next…

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Mayawati for PM is a Clever Ploy

‘One day, she will fulfill Babasaheb Ambedkar’s dream!” claimed Bahujan Samaj Party founder, Kanshi Ram,…

Kaun Banega Pradhan Mantri? Game on!

As the temperatures sharply dip in the national capital, the political heat is rising. The…

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Why BJP should worry, not be in denial

In 2004, a few weeks before the general elections and a day after the Lucknow…

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The Five State Election: Ten Takeaways..

1) In electoral politics, no one is invincible, not even self styled Bahubalis and political…

Congress’s Make or Break Election

Defeat in sport can be dispiriting and contagious. In the 1980s, most teams lost to…

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No Ram or Rafale, the Rozi Roti election in MP

In the age of T-20 style elections — instant opinion, shoot and scoot polls and…

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DeMo@2: What’s to ‘celebrate’?

For a government which has mastered the art of event management and never missed an…