BJP juggernaut has a flat tyre

The oppressive Hindutva story is not what the voter is tuned in to

A week of economic uncertainty

The Finance Ministry now has to contend with a new central bank governor, an altered economic advisory council for the PM and volatility in the stock and currency markets. Coupled with uncertainty following the NDA’s poor poll results, the pressure to finalise more, rather than less, populist policies intensifies.

TRS regime reaps its populist plans

Largely, but not entirely, the electorates of Telangana voted sensitively to actual economic experience under the incumbent TRS regime while rejecting their traditional discontents.

Mizoram, a model for polls