N DA’s Bihar victory was phenomenal. You may rack your brain, feel broken, feel anguished, but the truth stands: it is phenomenal to turn a brutal Lok Sabha drubbing into a string of emphatic state victories that requires not just machinery, but mastery. And on that, you will have to hand it to the BJP, more precisely, to Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.

The duo is unstoppable. Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi, and now Bihar, each taken with an ease that leaves the Opposition gasping for relevance. So comfortably, in fact, that in these assemblies the Opposition almost flickers like a ghost, present in theory, absent in impact.

The strategy is so precise, so layered, that even the criticism starts to bend inward. I received a call yesterday morning, and in a voice thick with exasperation, someon

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