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CONGRESS HAS A HISTORY OF MAKING ADJUSTMENTS WITH COMMUNAL FORCES

In April 2021, as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was leading the CPI(M)’s assembly poll campaign to win a second consecutive term, a spirited debate erupted in Kerala over an epithet that party workers had bestowed on him.

POLL PLOT

Congress hopes its five guarantees’ will blunt BJP’s aggressive push

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MODI'S GUARANTEES REMAIN IN SPEECHES, MY GUARANTEES ARE FULFILLED

The transformation is unmissable. The old-school mass leader Siddaramaiah has suddenly switched into the new avatar of a master strategist.

DAZED IN DECCAN

In the murky, shifting, swirly landscape of Karnataka politics, the only thing that seems to look dependably solid is Modiji

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HEADING SOUTH FOR THE SUMMER

THE HOTTEST BATTLE THIS ELECTION SEASON IS IN THE SOUTH. WHILE THE BJP WANTS TO EXPAND AND PROVE ITS PAN-INDIA APPEAL, THE CONGRESS AND REGIONAL PARTIES WANT TO HOLD ON TO THEIR TERRITORIES AND THEIR IDEA OF INDIA

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HUSH AT THE HUSTINGS

With the ethnic conflict in Manipur now closing in on a year, the state is witnessing a subdued election season

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When BJP Asks 'Modi Vs Who', The Answer Is 'Modi Vs Common Man'

A veteran of many poll battles, Mallikarjun Kharge is facing his toughest challenge since he became Congress president in October 2022.

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Jumbos, gift-wrapped

In 218 BCE, Hannibal, the great Carthaginian general, made his audacious assault on Rome from the north, crossing the Alps with his army of 30,000 men, 15,000 cavalry and most famously, 37 elephants.

The crew has landed

At the time of writing this, an all-women-led film—Crew—has clocked in₹104 crore at the worldwide box office.

The social insecurity

Parents don’t need research. They know when their children get addicted to social media.

I am not a serious person; I only do my work seriously

In an industry obsessed with fillers and filters, calling someone a chameleon could invite ire or scorn.

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Tales of an ace

THE WEEK Sportsroom with Rohan Bopanna offered more than a peek into the journey of a modern Indian great

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HOLY COW!

How a cattle specimen with Indian roots became the Brazilian cattle industry's billion-dollar jewel

JOINING FORCES

Unprecedented in scale and size, recent Indian military war exercises walk the talk on the theaterisation, jointness and integration effort

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Sink prejudice instead

The reactions on social media following the collision of the cargo ship Dali with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge were unnecessarily derogatory.

Reality show and resurgence

You have gotta love the election season. Setting aside contentious issues like electoral bonds, rumours of electronic voting machine rigging, bribery, intimidation and wilful disinformation, the fact is that India’s Lok Sabha elections are still the biggest reality show on earth.

UNCERTAIN ARITHMETIC

An intense, four-cornered fight on the ground could decide the outcome of the main battle between the two major dravida parties

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All anti-people laws by BJP will be reviewed

P. Chidambaram is the Congress’s manifesto maestro—he has been a part of the drafting committee on several occasions.

The BJP wants to manipulate the elections

In an election, there should be a level playing field. By virtue of being in power, by misusing that power, the BJP is destroying the democratic values of this country.

COUNTER-REVOLUTION

The BJP hopes that its decision to field Rekha Patra, the face of the Sandeshkhali movement, could prove a gamechanger

Scion of the times

With sitting ministers reluctant to contest the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress fields their children in Karnataka

HAND REACHES OUT IN HOPE

The Congress has tried to remedy what were seen as its problems. This includes having a non-Gandhi as party president and making sacrifices to hold together the INDIA bloc. However, newer problems like lack of money and fissures within the opposition do not make the Congress’s fight for survival any easier

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