"My reading of the Modi wave is quite different from my friends who watch TV news. I gave up on news channels sometime ago. With the Rajya Sabha TV poised to go under Hindutvas control when a new Indian vice president is elected, the burden of keeping a democratic conversation going will fall on anchors like Ravish Kumar. The few agreeable men and women still around are a relic from Indias waning age of sanity."

Dawn columnist Javed Naqvi on the 'Modi wave' or  the lack of it. Read it here.