Our generation is vicarious, if nothing else. To those of us lucky enough to own a smartphone and have internet access, vapid escapism is more than just a hobby.
In the Karnataka-Hyderabad region, it is the AHINDA (Dalits, backward classes and minorities) versus the Lingayats. And the mining Reddys could just tilt scales in BJP’s favour.
According to an internal party report, the 2019 Lok Sabha election is expected to see an estimated 15 crore first-time voters, and the Congress has been brainstorming about how to woo them.
There are no official figures on the number of mutts belonging to different castes, sub-castes and sects in Karnataka, but they are estimated to be in the hundreds.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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