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Thursday, November 13, 2025
Topic2019 Lok Sabha election

Topic: 2019 Lok Sabha election

When RTI comes in the way of ‘Right to Isle’ & uneasy lies the head that wears a ‘halo’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Sabyasachi Das’ paper is ground breaking. But ‘democratic backsliding’ is gross exaggeration

Sabyasachi Das asked a good and an important question. This is the job of academics. But a single paper is hardly the final truth. It’s a fragment of a broader puzzle.

A great new churn has begun in Indian politics

Non-BJP voters are increasingly willing to look beyond Congress, resulting in more political competition. 2024 will be a landmark election to watch.

Cambridge Analytica alone wouldn’t have helped Congress win 2019 polls — ex-Facebook executive

Cambridge Analytica, firm accused of Facebook data breach that allegedly helped Trump win presidency & Brexit, was said to have approached Congress with a strategy for 2019 LS polls.

Congress loses big when a Pilot or Scindia rebels but the ‘privileged’ are ultimate losers

Sachin Pilot and Jyotiraditya Scindia became ministers in Congress at an age when others like them were trying to make a name for themselves in student and youth organisations.

Not vikas, Modi’s 2019 election was built on politics of vishwas

BJP’s political mobilisation for 2019 was not based on standard models of democratic accountability and issue-based politics, which place power in the hands of citizenry.

The surveys can’t be true: Modi’s popularity has taken a beating with migrant crisis

The idea that nothing hurts Modi is bunkum. He gets too much credit for the opposition’s inability to seize opportunities.

Maximum Modi, maximum opportunity

Narendra Modi is now the new colossus of Indian politics. The question is no longer winning 2019, but what will he do with the new status

On Camera

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.