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2024 Elections

Guarding the Citadel

Madhavankutty Pillai

Union Minister Piyush Goyal sways north Mumbai, a traditional BJP bastion, reports

The War of the Images

Why the General Election is no longer about competing narratives

Welfare for All

Modi has drawn a fresh line on the polarisation debate

A Proverbial Guide to the Polls

Check the cheese and ignore the bombast

A Measure of Mumbai

How India’s financial capital votes has an outsized influence on national politics. Modi leaves nothing to chance

Lotus In an Elephant Trunk

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

Mapping the Muslim Mind

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

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

Betting on the Future

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

Modi and the Muslim Veto

While it is unlikely Muslim opinion will change anytime soon, Modi has made a start with what can be defined as an honest outreach

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