Post BJP's loss in recent polls, will an alternative politics gain impetus?

For quite some time, there was a sense of fatalism and pessimism. BJP's loss may put an end to that

I am not an ‘election expert’. However, as the election results surprises us and made us understand the meaning of the changing political landscape in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, I began to recall a lesson that I learned from a profound Sufi story: This too will pass. But then, it is the intoxication with power, or the resultant narcissism, that makes all authoritarian rulers think that they are here forever; they love to entertain the illusion that ‘there is no alternative’.

Yes, for quite some time, the dominant ideology – backed by the powerful media houses, and celebrated by the