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Crocodile-lover, fakir, now a man of wild for Bear Grylls – Modi and the power of makeovers

Ruhi Tewari -
As natural as he may have wanted to be around nature, the Modi that came across is the Modi that he mostly is - minutely orchestrated and carefully planned.

Foreign investors don’t know if ‘Watchman Modi’ will be good for them

John Micklethwait -
India needs more dynamic reforms, not less. Foreign investors should pray that if Modi wins, he should pick up from where he started in 2014, not where he left off in 2019.

‘Pakistan, terrorism, chowkidar’ — Modi’s favourite words in speeches after Pulwama attack

Ratnadeep Choudhary -
ThePrint’s word analysis of Narendra Modi’s public speeches before and after the Pulwama terror strike reveals a significant shift in his poll campaign.

Karnataka raids a brazen display of power, undermine democracy

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Samjhauta acquittal blunts India’s censure of Pakistani inaction on terror

ThePrint Team -
ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

I wear abuses as jewels, says PM Modi in chat with 25 lakh chowkidars

Ruhi Tewari -
The interaction with the security guards across the country via an audio bridge lasted for 23 minutes, one of the PM’s shortest public addresses.

Like Rahul Gandhi, British in India viewed chowkidars as ‘chors’ too

Ratnadeep Choudhary -
The British brought chowkidars, formerly under the control of zamindars (rich landlords), into the administrative fold in 1813 in Bengal.

PM Modi’s allies exempt from ‘chowkidar’ prefix drive, but it spares none in BJP

Jyoti Malhotra -
PM Modi took little time to decide that his entire party would go public with the ‘Chowkidar’ Twitter handles. Unity in unity, it was felt.

The participatory campaign logic behind ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’

Shivam Vij -
From Mahatma Gandhi to Arvind Kejriwal, everyone’s tried participatory campaigns to draw people’s attention.

Najeeb’s mom asks ‘chowkidar’ Modi where’s her son, fake IS image reappears in response

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Right-wing handles and Facebook pages shared an old picture claiming Najeeb had joined IS, in response to the tweet from Najeeb’s mother Fatima Nafis.
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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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