2019

Straining At the Fringes

Siddharth Singh

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

Doctor on Call

Jayanta Ghosal

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

A much larger section of ordinary Bengalis are now rediscovering their Hindutva

General Election 2019: Quote Hanger

Madhavankutty Pillai

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

Sense and the City

Ullekh NP

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

Capital Gain

Amita Shah

BJP hopes arithmetic will go in its favour in Delhi’s triangular contest

Varanasi: The City of Flickering Light

Shylashri Shankar

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