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This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.

‘If he has not achieved a ‘Congress mukt Bharat’ even now, the question of his creating a ‘DMK mukt Tamil Nadu’ does not arise By N SATHIYA MOORTHY While

Two leaders who recently quit the Congress have been picked for a Rajya Sabha nomination by two rival parties. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has alleged that there are three 'Congressmen' from Maharashtra for the 6 seats. Read more.

What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modi's tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to his Hindutva agenda, now centred on the Ayodhya temple consecration on January 22, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.

Despite the Right to Information Act (RTI) having completed 17 years in India, sometimes, one comes across complete ignorance with which an RTI application is filed. One, which is filled with absurd rhetoric but has reached the desk of the second appeal hearing, compelled the information commissioner to dismiss it last week.