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The Meaning of the Mandate
Modi becomes the first Prime Minister since Indira Gandhi to return to power with an absolute majority for his party
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The Redundancy of the Elite
How Modi wrested back control of communicating with India from political and intellectual cliques
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Memes in Hope of Private Utopia
As his opposition remained entangled in useless wisecracks, Modi fused majority concerns with nationalism to create a winning cocktail
This week in open
Amit Shah: Master of the Machine
Amit Shah is already planning 2024. A portrait of the ace organiser
Looking for India’s Cannes-Do Spirit
Indian women are wowing on the red carpet and the after-parties. Now could someone please cast them in movies that compete for the Palme d’Or?
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AK Ramanujan: A Poet’s Testament
A new volume of AK Ramanujan’s unpublished notebooks reveals the struggles and sagacity behind greatness
Pico Iyer: Writer of the Heart
In his new book Pico Iyer returns to Japan to chronicle the beauty of impermanence. The author in conversation with Nandini Nair
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Therapy for Anxious Liberals
To look at Narendra Modi as just a regular politician driven by similar impulses
Openings
The Orator and His Perfect Flourish
Words may well have won Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term
Smriti Irani: The Giant Killer
Relentlessly chasing Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, she finally overtook him through perseverance
Sleepless in Power
In 2012 at a Google Plus hangout anchored by actor Ajay Devgn, Modi said he was a workaholic, who slept three to four hours a day
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Why Modi is Still the One
Modi’s individual integrity gave the politics of hope a greater sense of authenticity
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No Full Stops for Amit Shah
Up in the air playing with numbers in the privacy of a chartered flight or among the swelling legion of followers on the ground, Amit Shah has only one mission in life: Modi in power. On the…
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