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Voices

The runaway messiah

Arvind Kejriwal is the most dangerous of all political animals: the messiah. The man for whom any existing reality is too impure to be corrected

Anyone but the One

The One is Modi now, and at this moment in Indian politics, as the poet would have said, the performer and the performance have become one.

Ticket to Pollywood

Why mass entertainment is a perfect training ground for a career in politics

The Absent Context

Shazia Ilmi and the perils of the hidden camera

The Comfort of Masks

The masks are a celebration of sameness from which many people feel shut out. They convey both the euphoria of this election and its air of mutual distrust

El Realismo Gabo, Forever

The reality of the world Gabriel García Márquez inherited needed a redeemer, a storyteller. El Maestro lived to tell the tale

Skewed Logic, Old Invective and Double Trouble

LK Advani discourages abstinence, Raj Thackeray scapes an old goat and Abu Azmi asks people to vote twice

In Praise of the Risk Taker

What does the rise of Modi and Kejriwal, and the stalling of Rahul, say about Indian politics?

Bollywood’s Own ‘Fairytale’

Bollywood’s Own ‘Fairytale’ • Imran Introspects • A Take Too Late

Action Replays

The déjà vu around the fall and rise of BCCI administrators

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