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Incidents like the violence in Leicester are only going to increase and spread elsewhere unless local governments take decisive action.

Nirmala Sitharaman's exhortation to domestic investors only proves that India remains in the private investment famine which began in 2014, when Narendra Modi became prime minister.

The physical element of politics cannot be underrated. Some words of encouragement, a couple of acts of kindness and a few words of conversation, often change the mind of a hitherto hostile voter.

Patriotism is of its nature defensive — both militarily and culturally — and nationalism is inseparable from the desire for power.

Despite the energetic creation of booth-level party committees as elections approach, the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah management style has severely disempowered BJP activists.

Instead of clearing the air on the matter, the statements of the technical panel appointed by the Supreme Court to examine if Pegasus was used on the mobiles it examined have only added to the list of unanswered questions.

As economists of all hues have been forced to go into the intricate nuances of “merit and demerit subsidies”, the prime minister seems to be having the last laugh. Modi's objective was purely political.

It is mainly the BJP’s propaganda that fuels its perception of invincibility. For a party with a majority of around 30 MPs in the Lok Sabha, there is no inevitability of success.

The change in Bihar is important because it demonstrates that the BJP can be checkmated; its manoeuvres against the Opposition, hailed by the media as masterstrokes and smart politics, regardless of its implications for democracy, can be thwarted.

The most obvious question on the PM Street Vendors Atmanirbhar Nidhi scheme is, why are there so few takers for the scheme launched in June 2020 to provide subsidised loans in three tranches?