Move over, truffle chocolates. This year it’s baklava from Turkey, pavlova from New Zealand and dates from Jordan. As Forrest Gump’s momma would say, you never know what you’ll get next
That is the bottomline. At least Uttar Pradesh, a Congress bastion for yonks and then not for nearly as long, is ready to vote the party in, with Rahul on top.
The minority report on the man is also fairly upbeat. More than half the Muslims and Dalits polled in the survey feel Rahul is batting for them.
A lot of them, men and women, upper caste Hindus and Dalits, young and old, find Rahul “clean, accessible and energetic”. His looks count for something too.
His life’s been such an unredeemed saga of misery that Baichulal Harijan has often wished himself dead. He believes Rahul might be able to turn it around for him.
BJP-SAD discord; Smoking fines; Condom as an election symbol; Naxal plans backfire; Land-related carnage in Bihar
The governments of deluged Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka have been hurling blame around. Thankfully, there were actual rescuers at work too.
Look at the wreckage that is India’s aviation sector today, and a revival plan assumes urgency. Start by freeing Air India of state control