IN A country in which it is always election season, it is hard for political commentary to rise above mundane tripe. As a columnist with an outsized sense of my responsibility to you, dear readers, I am going to try this week to get beyond covering the Prime Minister’s latest speech and Tejashwi Yadav’s anointment as the chief ministerial candidate of the Mahagathbandhan. I have said more than once already that it is my fervent hope that Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj party somehow manages to win because he is not a ‘potted plant’ (political princeling) and has spent more than two years wandering about the villages of Bihar trying to understand what the people of our poorest state really need. I have also said, more than once, that if there were a hundred more like him in our ancient a

See Full Page