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Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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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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‘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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Trending
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Journalist wipes tears as he reports live: ‘No hospital beds in Lucknow, CMO doesn't take calls’
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Watch: Pune viewer accuses Times Now anchors of being partial to Modi government on dial-in show
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How a cryptocurrency exchange in Mumbai flourished despite RBI’s ban on virtual coins
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Lahore and Amritsar: Two cities joined at birth are dying together
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India’s Covid vaccine production will stop in weeks unless US supplies critical components: Report
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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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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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Video
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Watch: ‘Injections won’t work, alcohol will,’ says woman outside liquor shop in New Delhi
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Watch: Aircraft makes emergency landing on water during an air show in Florida
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Journalist wipes tears as he reports live: ‘No hospital beds in Lucknow, CMO doesn't take calls’
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Watch: Spanish dancer Ariadna Hafez’s mesmerising underwater tango performance
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Watch: Migrant workers thronged inter-state bus stand in New Delhi before lockdown announcement
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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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
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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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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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The Reel
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Renowned filmmaker Sumitra Bhave dies at the age of 78
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Film flashback: In ‘Mississippi Masala’, migration, an inter-racial romance and the idea of home
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Tribute: Vivekh’s comedy captured the imagination of the urban youth
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‘Horror was my playground’: What it meant to be a member of the Ramsay film clan
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The final edition of the Rising Gardens festival has films about solidarity between women
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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 journalist as neta: Rajdeep Sardesai on Kumar Ketkar accepting a Rajya Sabha nomination
Once a journalist enters the political domain, he or she sheds any pretence at independent journalism.
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The Field
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Watch: ‘Absolutely disgusted’ – Man Utd Gary Neville slams European Super League plans
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European Super League: All you need to know about the new breakaway football tournament
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Premier League: Tottenham sack manager Jose Mourinho and his staff after poor run of results
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IPL 2021: Just kept the same mindset that worked for me last year, says Punjab Kings’ Mayank Agarwal
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Formula One: Verstappen wins chaotic GP at Imola, Hamilton second after rare mistake