Daily Brief: Lok Sabha 2024: Decoding the mandate

CEC on Modi’s anti-Muslim speeches: ‘We decided not to touch top two leaders of BJP and Congress’

The top election official claimed to have issued ‘strong directions’ to the presidents of the two parties deterred other leaders from offensive rhetoric.

Assembly election results: BJP leading in Odisha, early trends show

Most exit polls predicted a win for the National Democratic Alliance in Andhra Pradesh and a close contest between the BJP and the Biju Janata Dal ...

Lok Sabha elections 2024: The story of the rise and fall of the Election Commission of India

The current infirmities of the panel must be seen as part of the larger story of emasculation and capture of institutions since 2014.

US softening stance on Bangladesh could heighten China-India rivalry for regional dominance

With countering Chinese influence being the sole focus, the US has sidelined its concerns about democracy and human rights under the Sheikh Hasina regime.

Opinion: At the end of a vitriolic campaign, what price will India’s Muslims pay?

Led from the top by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP’s campaign has attempted to normalise anti-Muslim hatred in a polarised society.

From the memoir: How Bhantus, a ‘criminal tribe’, found acceptance from Christian missionaries

An excerpt from ‘This Land We Call Home: The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India’, by Nusrat F Jafri.

Fiction: A Dalit lecturer at a Delhi college wonders if he can be ‘middle-class’ despite his caste

An excerpt from ‘Worlds Within Worlds’, by Ajay Navaria, translated from the Hindi by Nita Kumar.

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