WhatsApp’s prized encryption technology becomes a powerful weapon for the fake news industry in its biggest and most complex market, India, ahead of the 2019 poll
The BJP hopes offering reservations to economically weaker sections will help retain its core vote base, batter rival partnerships and tide over discontent ahead of the polls
With Rahul Gandhi keen on promoting young blood, Gehlot stuck to the party line throughout the election campaign of not asserting himself over the state Congress chief Sachin Pilot
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle