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Planning Omissions

Bibek Debroy

Early Indian economic thinking was stuck between the too big and the too small

Modi Scene Two: Enter the Alchemist
S Prasannarajan

The rise of Narendra Modi marks a cultural shift in the Right’s management of power

Saffron Star Over Bengal
Sunanda K Datta-Ray

What will Syama Prasad Mookerjee make of his home state today?

The Meaning of the Mandate
PR Ramesh and Ullekh NP

Modi becomes the first Prime Minister since Indira Gandhi to return to power with an absolute majority for his party

The Name of the Change
S Prasannarajan

Modi, as man and idea, is a layered construct

The Price of a Wink
MJ Akbar

A dynasty which once sprinkled stardust has been reduced to sawdust

Open Diary
Swapan Dasgupta

Never before had so many intelligent people been so blinded by their prejudices

Therapy for Anxious Liberals
Madhavankutty Pillai

To look at Narendra Modi as just a regular politician driven by similar impulses

Memes in Hope of Private Utopia
Rahul Pandita

As his opposition remained entangled in useless wisecracks, Modi fused majority concerns with nationalism to create a winning cocktail

The Redundancy of the Elite
PR Ramesh

How Modi wrested back control of communicating with India from political and intellectual cliques

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