The preference for the performing ruler over the governing one is not just a pathology of today’s democracy. It has been ingrained into our politics for nearly one and a half millennia.
In ep 1838 of Cut the Clutter Shekhar Gupta explains economic concerns behind PM Modi’s appeal to cut gold purchases, fuel use, foreign travel and fertiliser consumption.
Indian Navy had first moved a proposal to make 12 minesweepers in 2005 but the project never fructified and India decommissioned its last specialised vessel in 2019.
These elections mark completion of BJP-secular party divide purely on Hindu-Muslim basis. BJP’s rivals are increasingly looking like Muslim parties though their leaders are all Hindus.
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