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Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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Rajdeep Sardesai: Salim Durani played cricket king size, never allowed pressure to imprison him
Former India cricketer Salim Durani died at 88. Few have symbolised the rare carefree spirit of life and sport quite like him.
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Rajdeep Sardesai: Team India is a symbol of a better, diverse and more unified India
The Indian cricket team is driven forward by a genuinely meritocratic spirit, unchained by privilege or a sense of entitlement.
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Rajdeep Sardesai: Thank you Rahane and Co, in gloomy times we needed a blissful moment like this
Brisbane 2021, and indeed this series, must be seen as arguably India’s finest ever overseas cricket performance. It couldn’t have come at a better time too.
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Trending
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Faltering economy, poor citizens, South Asia’s bully: The reality of India’s global ambitions
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Shifting goalposts: AIFF chief Kalyan Chaubey needs to come clean on the ISL not having relegation
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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Sugar in Nestlé baby food sold in African countries shows how corporations influence public policy
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‘A regime contemptuous of checks and balances’: Rajdeep Sardesai on the first year of Modi 2.0
An excerpt from Rajdeep Sardesai’s new ‘Afterword’ to his book ‘2019: How Modi Won India’.
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Rajdeep Sardesai: The rise of Uddhav Thackeray, the accidental chief minister
A year after Maharashtra’s three-wheeler coalition assumed power, Uddhav Thackeray has not only stayed afloat – he is a leader transformed.
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Rajdeep Sardesai: 10 takeaways from the Battle for Bihar
From a new M-Y equation to the cult of Modi, some phenomena that became visible with the voting.
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Video
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‘Physical building of WhatsApp University’: Satire on viral video of Galgotias University students
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Watch: Meet Sparkles, the new avatar of Boston Dynamics’ robot dog with a special costume
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Watch: Diljit Dosanjh invites young fan on stage, dances with him during his sold-out Vancouver show
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Watch: School authorities turn classroom into swimming pool to encourage attendance during heatwave
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Watch: Woman recreates pet parrot’s choreography
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Of ‘kaamdars’ and ‘naamdars’: Why Modi wants to identify himself with Dhoni’s legacy
The small-town cricketer’s rise to stardom is the kind of success story that the politician from Vadnagar likes to claim as his own.
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Of ‘kaamdars’ and ‘naamdars’: Why Modi wants to identify himself with Dhoni’s legacy
The small-town cricketer’s rise to stardom is the kind of success story that the politician from Vadnagar likes to claim as his own.
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Rajdeep Sardesai explains how marketing professionals run Narendra Modi’s and BJP’s social media
An excerpt from Sardesai’s ‘2019: How Modi Won India’.
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The Reel
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Watch: In animated prequel, Baahubali and Bhallaladeva unite to defeat the warlord Raktadeva
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‘Naach Ga Ghuma’ review: Soft landings in saga of a woman and her missing maid
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‘Heeramandi’ review: Lahore Luxe tawaif saga runs on empty
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‘The Fall Guy’ review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt sparkle in entertaining action comedy
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ trailer: Barry Jenkins directs prequel to 2019 photorealistic animated film
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Farewell, Wadekar Sir
The former India captain, who died at the age of 77 on Wednesday, was someone who was married to Indian cricket.
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Rajdeep Sardesai: Why are India’s political leaders unwilling to be held accountable to the press?
This June 2017 column is part of the journalist’s book about news in the Modi era.
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Was Sanjay Dutt a terrorist?: It’s grey, says Rajdeep Sardesai as he recalls Mumbai’s ’92-’93 trauma
Definitions of criminality, justice, and possibly even who is seen as a terrorist, may depend on social status and just who is available to stand up for you.
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The Field
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ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Rohit Sharma, Ajit Agarkar on team selection, KL Rahul’s omission and more
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India tour of Bangladesh: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana guide India to victory in third T20I
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Hockey, FIH Pro League: Salima Tete to lead Indian women’s team for European leg
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Badminton, Thomas and Uber Cup 2024: Indian women lose to Japan, men to China in quarter-finals
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Squash, Saurav Ghosal interview: ‘People enjoyed watching me, this was the legacy I wanted to leave’