Politics

The War of the Images

Badri Narayan

Why the General Election is no longer about competing narratives

A Tale of Two Nominations

Rahul Shivshankar

Modi’s basket of guarantees and Rahul’s consolation prize

Lotus In an Elephant Trunk

Rahul Pandita

Is the Bahujan Samaj Party under Mayawati even putting up a fight?

Mapping the Muslim Mind

Ullekh NP

Travelling across eastern Uttar Pradesh, Open finds Muslims are crestfallen as they are taken for granted by the so-called secular parties

The Smriti Surge

Amita Shah

Smriti Irani has already made the Gandhis a distant memory in Amethi, and lets her work do the talking

Betting on the Future

Rajeev Deshpande

A week after the pilgrim belt of Mathura-Vrindavan voted on April 26, public opinion indicates the Modi-Yogi model has prevailed over local discontents and trumped a disorganised opposition, reports

Heat Wave

V Shoba

The three-party alliance led by TDP is looking to capitalise on the anti-incumbency faced by Jagan Mohan Reddy

The Battle for Baramati

Lhendup G Bhutia

Two sisters-in-law find themselves in opposite corners with the future of the Pawar legacy at stake

Game of Thrones

Lhendup G Bhutia

BJP seeks to storm the sugar heartland in western Maharashtra with Ajit Pawar’s NCP on its side

The Congress campaign is stuttering at the end of polling for 285 seats with its key promises failing to strike a chord with voters and an isolated high command remaining out of sync with the party cadre