https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article5498.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article5498.html 2015-03-01T19:44:46Z text/html en Kumar Ketkar <p>Till February 10, most of the print media published stories with headlines declaring a neck-and-neck fight in Delhi. The elite English TV channels also echoed that line, forecasting a “photo finish” or predicting that the BJP would score between 38 and 41 of a possible 70 seats. <br class='autobr' /> Even the bookies (safe to assume these were Gujarati satta operators) said a day before results were counted that after “carefully studying” the opinion polls, they believed the BJP had “recovered immensely”. (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique110.html" rel="directory">2015</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1015.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1015.html 2008-11-04T16:35:04Z text/html en Kumar Ketkar <p>It is a win-win situation for Raj Thackeray. He must have desired to get arrested. That keeps him in the headlines and also steals the media limelight from his main rival, the Shiv Sena. To his followers, indeed to a large number of Marathi youth in Mumbai and Maharashtra, the arrest confers on him the status of a saviour. The more he is seen on the non-Marathi channels and among the Hindi-speaking political classes as a monster, the more he is perceived as a spokesperson by the angry and (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique85.html" rel="directory">November 1, 2008</a>