Rajdeep Sardesai

This weekend marks 50 years since Sunil Gavaskar made his test debut in the West Indies. It was a year that changed Indian cricket like no other.

Just as a scooter belongs to every Indian, so must the idea of love. Which is why if I was on the Titan board, I would get the 'offensive' ad back on air.

Delhi, at that point, had had enough of the robustness of the Madanlal Khuranas. It needed Sheila Dikshit's empathetic liberalism.

India's first IIT-educated CM and a BJP leader who ensured communal amity, Manohar Parrikar was also definitively shaped by his beloved Goa.

From his muscular approach to Pakistan to a weak opposition narrative, there are undeniable pushes aiding Modi back to power

It’s not just the Pakistan army that’s to blame for terrorism on Indian soil. The government is yours — so is the responsibility to act.

George Fernandes led a contradictory life but also a remarkably fulfilling one.

This was, in a sense, the revenge of the 'aam aadmi', the faceless Indian for whom the vote is a weapon of last resort, their only way of rejecting any abuse of state power.