Shiv Visvanathan, Author at Asia Times

Supporters of India's Bharatiya Janata Party celebrate the initial Gujarat poll results outside the party office in Ahmedabad on December 18, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Amit Dave

After Gujarat polls, is Modi’s imagined power equal to its impact?

by Shiv Visvanathan December 20, 2017

In a brisk and obvious way, an election is a battle about numbers, a breakdown of seats, a conquest of constituencies. It is a battle, a competition for power. A preoccupation with numbers, however, blinds one to the fact that subconsciously an election and the debates around it may be a meditation on the nature […]