Nehruvian clarion calls, socialist barbs, Indira’s promises, Anna’s vows, Janata’s stings, Rajiv’s fall and Modi’s jibes...the story of Indian politics can be read through its demotic slogans
Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu has promised many sops to the voters and other last-minute doles that allegedly cost the state exchequer over Rs 200 crores.
Assam is leitmotif of all that comes with elections, including an impromptu jig recently by Himanta Biswa Sarma, state minister and the BJP’s key man in the Northeast.
In an extract from a novel, taken from an anthology published on this centenary year of the Jallianwala massacre, Mulk Raj Anand sketches the tense, rumour-filled, febrile atmosphere in Amritsar, and the epiphanic glow of a boy’s patriotism
