There are aftershocks everywhere. Diplomacy has taken a battering and the economic order is disrupted as tycoons step into lead roles in US government.

Judiciary, with all its vulnerabilities, remains an impediment in the way of the Modi-Shah regime’s authoritarian project.

A decade after the promise to build 100 high-tech cities, and five years behind schedule, the scheme closes and questions linger.

While some of the poor performers in population control will double their present tally in the Lok Sabha after delimitation, those with a good record will lose seats.

The appointment of non-Brahmins as pujaris and a ban on RSS shakhas on temple premises in the south are the latest among the challenges the saffron organisation is currently facing.

Muckraking with ED support, relentless administrative meddling, jailing senior leaders and freebies – nothing was off the table.

Despite the electoral setback in Lok Sabha, one may wonder what made the Modi-Shah duo press ahead with the Kovind panel report. The advantages of this authoritarian project, however, far outweigh the risks. 

Chief ministers have been forced to protest on the streets because Modi treats states like municipalities.

Frenzied crowds rushed to temples, river ghats and parks, held havan and bhajan and waited for the apocalypse at 5.38 pm. But nothing happened.

Modi has become a full fledged competitive promoter of poll-eve freebies.

Dhankhar can rightly take credit for politicising the constitutional offices of the governor and of the Rajya Sabha chairperson.

The government will find it difficult to run roughshod on sensitive issues such as this because of a rejuvenated Opposition and the need for allies’ consent.

How politics of a state with rich traditions has become a cocktail of ED-CBI coercion, lures and business meddling.

The Public Accounts Committee is the only parliamentary panel whose chairman must be an opposition member. Problems cropped up when the new chairman, K.C. Venugopal, summoned SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch to appear before the PAC. 

Patients at hospitals, school students and policemen are among the targets of this great membership drive of the saffron party – ably assisted by private agencies.

Violent crowds, supported by biased officials and police, are making daily life miserable for the ordinary Muslim in India.

In Haryana, there were no road shows on which Modi's admirers showered flowers.

Will Nagpur yield and allow a BJP president who will remain an adjunct to the Modi-Shah establishment? 

Even as he has to roll back some decisions, Modi has continued to pursue his agenda undeterred.

A resurgent opposition and assertive allies have ensured that the Modi regime can no longer push surprise bills and pass them within days: 2024 is not 2019.