The watchful, counter-intuitive UP voter was telling us they were fed up of being taken for granted all around. Not just by the BJP, but also by the opposition.  

Power does not shift in regular electoral intervals unless the cellular, deep work every day is done. And that needs us to get up from where we are and go elsewhere. Don’t wait for June 4. Get up and get moving. It’s positively liberating.

We thought we had imagined a kind of country where difference was the unifier. So what happened?

Television tells you many things even in an era of untruth, if you know what to look for. As a practised viewer and reporter, I’m lucky. I know to look past the text of Modi’s speech at the US Congress and listen to the applause. 

Despite having interviewed the best voices and people who are still unafraid to say what they think, the BBC stitched them together in a way that said nothing new and is therefore guilty of painting a tired, wan picture of the same facts regurgitated in the same way.

The machismo and identification of young men with a testosterone-driven enthusiasm and leadership, that is what the t-shirt has come to represent.

Ahead of the first phase of the assembly polls, a long look at how caste and religious considerations shape political perceptions in UP.

"It’s once in a lifetime that people see a pandemic like this, so initially it was a challenge," says Jasjit Kaur.

In western Uttar Pradesh, a women's self-help group is taking the lead in spreading awareness about the coronavirus and ensuring that much-needed relief supplies reach the right hands.

Life is hard for women like Arti, and the lockdown has added new burdens – but the social platform keeps a secret star shining amid the grit of Shamli.

From the video of a man scooping papaya fruit out of an open gutter to people eating plain chapatis, the lockdown has brought to fore the precarious lives of many in India.

After 22 years of BJP rule in the state, two fears have become evident – of going against it and of the 'other'.