Modi’s individual integrity gave the politics of hope a greater sense of authenticity
The X Factor | Options Open | Rally Politics | Enemy’s Enemy | Post-Count Strategy | Via Old Guards
From nationalism to name-calling and from the insignificant to the intricate, this season of electioneering brought out the best and the worst of Indian politics
Remember how I described him on 7 December 2017? Was I not prophetic?, asks Mani Shankar Aiyar
Away from the humdrum of noisy electioneering, on three edges of the country—Kashmir, the Assam border and the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh—democracy faces different varieties of disenchantment that are hard to undo
His Master’s Voice | Less Colour | Spy Game | Shooting Star | Voice Protection | No to Bengal | Aurobindo Connection | Enter Computer Baba
My mother is contesting from here and she is a noble soul. You all should vote for Mata, that is, Bharat Mata, says Varun Gandhi
As civic issues dominate the poll debate in Chandigarh, Congress hopes to wrest the seat from BJP, which is looking up to Narendra Modi as the saviour amid local pressures
In the 2014 elections, Shylashri Shankar found Varanasi under the spell of Narendra Modi. Revisiting it in the current campaign, she finds some change is evident but the fault lines underneath remain the same