Sandeep Dikshit

Deputy Editor at The Hindu

Contributor at Tribune (India)

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Nehru’s ‘Honest John’

1 week ago | tribuneindia.com | Sandeep Dikshit

This is a book on people who strode a bygone era. This was when the British and the Gandhi-Nehru-Patel combine selected persons of unimpeachable integrity for top jobs, regardless of their party affiliation or the lack of it. Post-Independence, the same trend continued for a while till demands of realpolitik became overbearing.
‘The World after Gaza’: Israel & Gaza, as seen in light of the Holocaust

Mar 8, 2025 | tribuneindia.com | Sandeep Dikshit

In the spate of books after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and the brutal retaliation by Tel Aviv, India was one prominent black hole that had little to say. India’s foremost writer on post-colonialism, Pankaj Mishra, has stepped in to fill the gap. For a person who grew up in a typical upper caste, middle class family, his early veneration of Zionism was par for the course.
The public sector and privatisation in India by Sheela Dubey

Feb 1, 2025 | tribuneindia.com | Sandeep Dikshit

That the lack of political muscle in the Lok Sabha leads to a weakening of the resolve for privatisation and liberalisation is a well-known axiom. It is currently playing out in North Block after the BJP came back to power in 2024 without a clear majority of its own. In 2021, the BJP, with 303 seats, could ignore its overt allies, and announced a blockbuster of a public sector privatisation policy called ‘Strategic Disinvestment Policy (SDP) 2021’.
Refreshing departure from triumphant accounts of India’s growth trajectory

Jan 11, 2025 | tribuneindia.com | Sandeep Dikshit

Satya Mohanty has not pulled his punches about the infirmities he sees in politics and governance at the Centre since hanging up his boots as the NHRC secretary seven years back. He expressed his despondency, especially over India’s “castaways” — the migrants — during the Covid lockdown with a collection of poems.
Mohammad Tarbush’s memoir ‘My Palestine’ is a Palestinian story, as told by a refugee in his own land

Oct 26, 2024 | tribuneindia.com | Sandeep Dikshit

The Israeli Defence Forces’ ongoing heartless and meticulous detonation of every house in entire villages in Lebanon and Gaza and the flattening of multi-storeyed buildings with civilians still inside have been beamed worldwide, thanks to the social media. But this is a mere rerun of the brutality the world has witnessed off camera for the past seven-and-a-half decades.