#Elections2024 : #ManmohanSingh is remembered for ‘reformist’ credentials but he presided over a government more interested in redistribution in the pursuit of social welfare than economic reforms, writes Siddharth Singh t.ly/ybGf0

The patronage that Kiran has provided to the arts needs to be lauded and replicated, but the problem is she is alone. And despite no state support, she is on track to build a private museum like no other, writes SUHEL SETH t.ly/kmy2N

#Elections2024 : While categorisation of certain Muslim castes as OBCs is legal, the Congress project is intended to expand the eligibility far beyond what is feasible and constitutionally valid, writes Rajeev Deshpande t.ly/ak5IW

For decades, India’s electorate has been spoon-fed the idea that if you codify Hindu personal law, you are secular. But if you codify Muslim personal law, you are communal, writes Minhaz Merchant t.ly/6MQvB

Lost and Found: A young woman’s search for meaning in the Himalayas, writes Kanika Sharma; Speaking Tiger, Namita Gokhale
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Travels through Time: A daughter’s quest for her mother in Delhi, writes Kartick, Viking Books
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A Manifesto for AI Users: Is Artificial Intelligence changing what it means to be human?, asks Ullekh NP/ഉല്ലേഖ് എൻപി, Pan Macmillan India; Madhumita Murgia t.ly/gE178

#Elections2024 : Before 2019, people attended events reluctantly, and to escape the wrath of militants, they preferred to keep their faces covered, writes Rahul Pandita #JammuAndKashmir t.ly/_0cFG

“Choice is a great buzzword for economics, and I wanted to look at that idea of choice closely and how the idea of choice is inseparable from the idea of constraint...,” #NeelMukherjee tells Nandini Nair, Penguin India t.ly/gkCuu

What Ifs: A dystopian novel that moves between fate and possibility, writes Madhulika Liddle; Viking Books t.ly/7JEVF

“ #LSD2 is brasher, louder, more colourful, and visually crazier than LSD,” #DibakarBanerjee tells kaveree bamzai t.ly/GmfqN

As opposed to #NarendraModi who brings up discussions on technology and entrepreneurship among the rural folk on his social media accounts, Gandhi resorts to misery-mongering and constant airing of grievances, writes PR Ramesh #Elections2024 t.ly/0M26n

As opposed to #NarendraModi who brings up discussions on technology and entrepreneurship among the rural folk on his social media accounts, Gandhi resorts to misery-mongering and constant airing of grievances, writes PR Ramesh #Elections2024 t.ly/0M26n

From Rajiv Gandhi’s Shah Bano to Manmohan Singh’s “First right on Indian resources”, Congress has made Muslim-first politics its electoral calling card.

In #LokSabhaElection2024 Congress has made four strategic errors. My ⁦Open Magazine⁩ column

#Elections2024 : While Congress has denied #BJP ’s allegations that it aims to redistribute wealth among certain sections of society, many middle-class voters in Bengaluru disapprove of the high cost of the party’s social guarantees, writes Shoba V t.ly/Lq8d7

#Elections2024 : Like her mother Sushma Swaraj in her silver-tongued oratory, in her gait, or in the way she wears a saree, Bansuri Swaraj (Modi Ka Parivar) has stepped into the rough and tumble of her first election with ease, writes Amita Shah t.ly/FSbPE

“One of my great fears is writing a thin book. By thin I don’t mean page extent, but thin as in the meanings it contains and the kind of argument it makes about the world,” #NeelMukherjee tells Nandini Nair, Penguin India t.ly/gkCuu

Shakespeare was—let us admit it—a provincial. The crude attacks on him by his contemporaries were evidently by people who, apart from the obvious benefits of class and education, also had the privilege of place: Oxbridge and London, writes Sumana Roy; t.ly/_CAUs

We looked for volumes that delineate what Lashkar-e-Tayyaba/Jamaat-ud-Dawa says it does as an organisation, what external and internal political imperatives shape the organisation’s behaviour in and beyond Pakistan, writes Christine Fair t.ly/BP_Qp

#Elections2024 : Unlike the accusation by Congress that BJP wants to alter the constitution, there is current and past evidence of Congress’ attempts to carve out a quota for Muslims despite repeated setbacks in courts, writes Rajeev Deshpande t.ly/ak5IW