A proportional representation model that takes in to account the “losing party’s” votes is the need of the hour, since every vote cast in the election should have a say in governance rather than the current system.

A government so confident of victory should run on its track record. Yet Modi and Shah are bragging about parliament seats and victory margins without alluding to anything concrete they have done to alleviate the travails of the poor people.

Bushnell’s case is unique as he is geographically distant from the scene of genocidal horror in Gaza and ethnically removed from the persecuted Palestinians. That only shows his extraordinary ability to display empathy, a quality increasingly rare in human beings.

Three events depict a politician that went to any length to retain power, threw the constitutional principles to wind and took ideological scruples for a ride.

In 2024, as the people of Gaza are getting pummelled in a genocidal onslaught, we would love to have a Vishwaguru that would speak up against the global west on behalf of the global south that has thrown its weight in favour of Gaza.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi should come out clean and say that his supreme allegiance is to sanatan dharma – and not the Constitution.

The Telugu states seem cut off from the model of anti-Hindutva politics prevailing in the other southern states. But could new momentum from the INDIA coalition change that in the months to come?