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Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Feb 03, 2021 · 12:41 pm
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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Jan 19, 2021 · 07:11 pm
‘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’.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Dec 25, 2020 · 08:30 am
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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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Dec 11, 2020 · 07:30 am
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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Nov 11, 2020 · 07:49 pm
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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· Aug 31, 2020 · 02:31 pm
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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
· Aug 31, 2020 · 06:30 am
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’.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Dec 25, 2019 · 08:30 am
Farewell, Wadekar Sir
The former India captain, who died at the age of 77 on Wednesday, was someone who was married to Indian cricket.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Aug 16, 2018 · 08:40 am
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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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Aug 10, 2018 · 08:30 am
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.
Rajdeep Sardesai
· Jul 09, 2018 · 11:31 am
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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· Mar 13, 2018 · 01:30 pm
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