Great Chris Kay read on Tata’s troubled airline turnaround: “Despite the change in ownership, Air #India ’s reputation has taken repeated hits with complaints about bugs and vermin on planes, as well as its treatment of passengers.” on.ft.com/44K5c19

India's opposition claims that voters are more disaffected than opinion polls suggest, pointing to lower election turnout to argue that the BJP is underperforming.

Financial Times dispatch from John Reed जॉन रीड & jyotsna singh in Varanasi

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Poor-sighted Indian bird flies into row over power lines in desert ft.com/content/cec843… w/Chris Kay

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India’s caste census becomes election faultline as opposition targets Narendra Modi ft.com/content/900da4… w/jyotsna singh Andy Lin 林佳賢

“One of my friends called me early morning that day and he said: ‘Hey Sundar you’ve become a celebrity . . . you have a deepfake video’.” Chris Kay

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Head of Indian IT giant TCS tells Financial Times that artificial intelligence will result in “minimal” need for call centres in as soon as a year, with AI’s rapid advances set to upend a vast industry across Asia and beyond | ft.com/content/149681… w/Benjamin Parkin

Lovely to see 'The Women's Cricket Revolution,' our Financial Times documentary on how #India can revolutionise women's cricket with the launch of an #IPL -style women's league, published two months before #WPL 1, nominated on the global Top 10 of the AIPS MEDIA Awards
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As elections loom in India, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party appears to be stronger than ever.

Why does the BJP’s electoral machine keep winning power?

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'We can understand more or less who is not voting [for the BJP] and why, so we focus on them'
Our Financial Times deep dive into the formidable grassroots operation of India’s BJP, one of the world's biggest electoral machines w/John Reed जॉन रीड jyotsna singh
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Modi has won plaudits for measures to help business during his decade in power. But many companies remain tangled in red tape.

“Modi is a great marketer, but the ease of doing business is still not that easy at all” | ft.com/content/0b3e79… w/John Reed जॉन रीड

For all his dominance of Indian politics, there is one place that Modi has so far been unable to crack: the country’s prosperous south. Our Financial Times analysis on his attempts to finally do so w/jyotsna singh
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Our Financial Times interview: India risks ‘squandering’ demographic dividend, says World Bank ft.com/content/518b12…