The Bharatiya Janata Party has successfully positioned itself as the chief custodian of Indian nationalism, but that is unlikely to help it electorally in Bihar

What did the pollsters expect by creating a phantasmagoria of a BJP win?

As voting begins in the state to elect a new government, caste alliances are driving elections under the catch-all phrase of ‘development’. In a ground report, Hardnews travelled through the state to understand which way the wind is blowing

Lalu recalled some of the statistics in it and rattled off things from it like the credit/deposit ratio’s, the investment in irrigation and rural development, and the destructive freight equalization policy