The general election for the 18th Lok Sabha has thrown up a lot. Here are a few things to catch.

A strong movement to eradicate manual scavenging had begun brewing in 2013. But with the introduction of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a year later, the sanitation movement in the country was rendered caste-less.

UP matters to Indian results more than any other state by virtue of its size. The past ten years may have given an impression of complete control by the BJP. But a desire for change has gathered momentum.

Any chance that INDIA has in UP to crack the BJP’s mainstay would depend considerably on how those who usually press the button for ‘haathi’, or Mayawati, choose this time.  

Can a feisty Bhojpuri actor, INDIA’s Kajal Nishad, recreate the 2018 moment when the BJP got a rude shock as it lost this prestigious seat? It is tough, but her campaign is picking up ground.

During the general elections in 2019, the absolute numbers for total votes cast was an issue. Here is all that happened.

It is a catchy hook to hold onto – in Gujarat, it was 'six crore Gujaratis,' to try and turn all criticism and concerns into a case of ‘hurt Gujarati asmita’. Modi has translated that to ‘140 crore’ now. But he does not speak for '140 crore’. Here’s why.

Reams have been written about the Congress being over in UP.  So this decision is as much shrewd calculation and tightening the Congress’s Hindi belt as it is a recognition of what is truly the oldest family seat in the state and the country.

The first ‘Mood of the Nation’ poll of 2024 rings alarm bells on deep economic anxiety. This is borne out by the latest RBI consumer confidence survey.

India’s highest award to L.K. Advani and Karpoori Thakur, are a refresher course on India’s political history and its principal challenge.

The home minister and prime minister must explain why they are AWOL from the House after the security breach. December 18, when record number of MPs were suspended, was the 22nd anniversary of Advani as home minister making a statement on the 2001 parliament attack.

The “central government” wants to drag independent news into a censor board framework. No independent regulation is proposed. The government is everywhere and in control. The dubious ‘3-tier’ regulatory structure proposed is recycled out of IT Rules 2021, which has been stayed by two high courts.

Of the four states for which we saw results on Sunday, three states threw out their governments.

The 'missing revolution' is reason enough to interrogate the fizz and the fury behind people pouring onto the streets. It is time to ask some tough questions about why so little changed, if there was so much heat and noise.

Now, everyone who thinks is a suspect. The aim is also to destroy the juridical person in citizens they want to put away, so they are tried outside the normal penal system, with no rights.

It is wrong to compare this repression to the Emergency in 1975, historian Gyan Prakash said. This is accompanied by spreading poison in society and an attempt to remake India in the shadow of a cult.

The new data protection Bill, IT Rules, internet shutdowns and poor cybersecurity record seen together are ominous. The citizen, not government and Big Tech, should be at the centre of a healthy digital ecosystem.

Dr Hussain was the kind of man, that if he himself were to read (or edit) this obituary, he would flinch at the mention of his generosity as a doctor or friend. Good deeds were to be done, he believed, not to be remembered or recounted.

Who will it be uniform for? The chronology is clear as Hindus would want out too. The BJP realises this and hence, there is no UCC draft being made available, just hot air.

The Gita Press was and is waging a battle in sharp contrast to what Gandhi was trying to do with respect to Hinduism in modern-day India.