'CHINTAN' OR 'MANTHAN'?

The calm before the storm?

Currently being a country where the Prime Minister has gone ochre and incommunijust like cado, Vivekananda, Swami and is engrossed in meditation in the full glare of arc lights and cameras, the one question that springs to the mind is: What's next?

To all intents and purposes, Narendra Modi is preparing for an ascendancy once again.

But will this be to pitchfork the nation headlong into a blur of progress, stockmarket highs, inaugurations and more G-20-like moments?

Or is it that he is actually ruminating about the results?

Had this been Utopia, politicians would be asking themselves whether they have added to the confusion, or have they brought a semblance of clarity. All talk of Ab ki Baar 400 Paar' has virtually piped down. No longer is anyone speaking of the BJP and its allies going to romp home with this number. Even Mumbai's Satta Bazaar, as this paper reported on Friday, has revised its estimate of seats for the BJP to 306, down from 360 on April 19.