“Outrage in Jerusalem will be further stoked by the implication that Israel is on the same moral level as a terrorist organisation.” Gideon Rachman ft.com/content/24bd4d… via @ft

The test of time: A jail mulaqat with Umar Khalid.

A beautiful piece by Anirban Bhattacharya on the restless spirt of his friend, who has been in jail for four years.

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'Our names were right there on the very first page. What should have been a routine interaction suddenly felt like deliberate voter suppression'

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After nearly five years of intense politics, I find that the new CAA rules will have little impact for BJP.

Ironically, the only party impacted is CPI(M).

Many disgruntled Muslims would otherwise have voted for it. But now will likely stick with TMC.

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Incredible: BJP worker’s son claims in video he cast eight votes in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad
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Impossible to keep track of the many ways the EC has helped the BJP over the Opposition

In Maharashtra, voters think they are voting for Uddhav's Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar's NCP, while voting for symbols belonging to BJP's allies

Tabassum reports
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.Abhik Deb listens to 41 Modi interviews:

He finds few tough questions, no rebuttals, no fact checks

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In Amethi, I ask Priyanka Gandhi Vadra why the Congress has been in a sustained state of disarray.

She tells me, 'when there is massive storm, are you going to start building your house, or stay put?'

Watch the full interview:

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Story 🚨 In Varanasi's least competitive election in decades, 14 BJP-RSS members filed nominations as independents.

Along with election officials, they deliberately delayed nominations for others, violating ECI guidelines, allege candidates. Scroll.in

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In heated Maharashtra poll battle, Uddhav Thackeray emerges as Opposition alliance’s strike weapon

On Monday all 6 constituencies of Mumbai vote.

The last phase of the long drawn out voting in the state includes 7 other seats. I report.
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Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that 1.25 crore Bangladeshis have infiltrated Assam in the past 40 years.

Sarma has been himself a state minister since 2002. His assertion has no logic or data is highly misleading .

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Abhik Deb Scroll What the BJP is banking on: The faithful Modi voter

This 46-year-old woman from Mumbai admits that BJP’s welfare benefits have not reached her, but will continue to vote for the party.

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Remember Bibek Debroy's column about embracing a new Constitution in 2047?

A young Dalit man in an Uttar Pradesh village reminded me of it

I report on why Dalits in UP want to vote out the BJP

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Is this the first time Hindi nationalism features so explicitly in a general election?

If so, big change due to rise of state identity. Hindi's hegemony never had to be spelt out. But now, for the first time, it also has to fight the fight, in whatever little way.