'What if he comes to steal your wife's mangalsutra' sir we want him to steal some Medimix first

Good formulation. If the EC has acquitted itself of its democratic responsibilities, then enforcement of rules no longer stems from any moral weight but from a garden variety thuggery and can be dispensed with by those with the courage to do so.

'The Opposition is going to take your sister's gold and give it to Muslims' is decidedly not something I had on my Election Bingo.

I'm so pleased to announce we will be repping Selma Carvalho's latest - an exploration of how citizenship and race at the East African frontier played out with the Portuguese Goan.

It's a wild ride, and has a fascinating insight into intersectionality that applies to our times.

A Suitable Agency is delighted to announce that we will be representing Selma Carvalho (Selma Carvalho). Selma Carvalho is the author of three non-fiction books documenting the Goan presence in colonial East Africa.

Naomi Barton Hemali Sodhi

It's also because it is deliberate - they are leaning into and validating the anxieties of job and food scarcity, and redirecting it to the Muslim Other - taking your jobs, using your resources, etc.

It is horrifically sad the Opposition cannot set the narrative in truth.

Frankly after seeing how the electoral bonds showed that companies essentially had to pay to get contracts, and also then ran the risk of getting raided if they didn't pay some more, failures in manufacturing / new businesses do seem to have obvious reasons now.

Naomi Barton Its pears

That 1% of the top earners have 40% of India's wealth should have been enough. That corporate bailouts are funded by taxpayers should have been enough. That the combination of unemployment and food inflation means people are going hungry should have been enough.

Naomi Barton It can lift Bihar out of poverty 😭

😭 found myself thinking it is a travesty to be going to bat for the Shiv Sena of all people and then realised that applies to literally everyone in the field now. Morals! Politics! The lies we tell ourselves to be able to sleep at night!

Naomi Barton Choked on my chai 😂

But it's really easy to be angry at your neighbor who doesn't dress or eat like you than to be angry at a diffuse and disconnected idea of wealth redistribution.

How would the Opposition even frame that when they're taking money from the same lobbies. This whole thing is farce.

Naomi Barton Wow so funny hahaha she/her L's

Naomi Barton While I understand his approach, its also scary. Tomorrow people can refuse to accept the results announced by eci. Till we have a facade of Democracy atleast maybe constitutional means might still be taken

Naomi Barton Anupam Guha Hi Naomi, what happened to the internal TekFog enquiry which was promised, specifically the supplementary articles you shared the bylines on, on the network analysis? The reports were just suspended, pending enquiry. That's one long suspension.

Anupam Guha incredible how many people out here have a vested interest in boiling frogs

Dr Reshma Ruia Naomi Barton Thanks, Reshma.

Neel Madhav Alishan Jafri Naomi Barton Cope and seethe.