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Assam Assembly Election 2026: Reading the Tea Leaves
BJP anchors its winning campaign in Assam on welfare and a secure border. Siddharth Singh travels across the state to find a people swaying to the promises of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
Kerala Assembly Election 2026: The Death of an Ideal
As political competition intensifies ahead of the polls, rising mistrust among religious communities is quietly eroding the social cohesion long celebrated as Kerala’s greatest strength
Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2026: Stalin’s Plot
DMK has turned the election into a battle against New Delhi
Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2026: Edappadi K Palaniswami struggles hard to keep AIADMK in the sheltering shadow of Jayalalithaa
The dramatic rise of Edappadi K Palaniswami, and therefore the story of AIADMK 3.0, begins with the death of Tamil Nadu’S Great Matriarch J Jayalalithaa
Amit Shah’s Report Card Shows Why Justifying Maoism is a Red Herring
With Maoism on its last legs the Home Minister’s Lok Sabha speech outlines the fallacy of the argument that the violent movement is a fight for downtrodden tribals and exposes an intricate eco-system ...
Kerala Assembly Elections 2026: CPM readies massive campaign blitz in Kannur’s Thaliparamba
In the CPM stronghold of Kannur, this constituency has assumed significance because the wife of state CPM chief MV Govindan is contesting amid rebel trouble and allegations of nepotism
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