NEW DELHI, Jan. 2 -- Gujarat elections call for deeper reflection in view of 2024. Do non-BJP parties have an understanding with the Ruling Regime that they will divide the votes in such a way that the BJP can win? Why did AAP need to divide votes in more than 50 places, except, possibly, to keep the Congress out? They had done the same in Goa. Do they not have the basic sense of strategy? Fortunes seem to be fixed in one direction: dividers will win. The option is between BJP-division (communal) or non-BJP division (party, personal, petty).

In any case, most voters seem to fall to rhetoric, Mann ki Baath.

Into a "Goblin Mode"

The BJP victory in Gujarat makes us understand more clearly why Oxford Dictionary chose the word 'goblin mod...