Through the emerging trend of Indian housewives uploading vlogs of their daily routines to YouTube emerges an increasing awareness of the unfair gendered expectations of Indian middle-class womanhood.

I have never attended protest gatherings. But on Sunday evening I was ready to because a time comes when every citizen has to rise up and protest in one voice, or be silenced forever.

If Modi wins a second mandate, it doesn’t mean that our democracy is irrevocably broken. If he doesn’t, it unfortunately won't mean the converse is true – that our democracy is safe.

Romanticising the rape and murder of Nirbhaya, the eight-year-old in Kathua, and countless others, and making martyrs of them, is no better than victim-blaming or shaming. They were raped and killed. No halo is bright enough to hide that.

Hanuman 2.0 is not benign. The smile on his face has been replaced with strong frown lines. He radiates mean energy against a black and saffron background.