Sonikka Loganathan

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Just look at trajectory. Shiv Sena and NCP split, AAP lost Delhi a year ago and 7 MPs just split and joined BJP. RJD lost Bihar badly last year. Last woman standing was TMC in Bengal with her super articulate MPs; and last men standing were DMK that raised issues linked to federal structure. That’s it really. The next big state force to be put to the test will be SP in Uttar Pradesh next year.

I am not surprised by #Kerala and #WestBengal results. In Kerala, which traditionally votes out the incumbent, the Left had been in power for 10 years. The anti-incumbency factor had kicked in. Vijayan's decision to continue to lead the LDF for the third consecutive election did not make their case stronger. The Congress camp was chaotic, but VD Satheesan, the opposition leader, is a good communicator and he tapped into the sentiment. In Bengal, the anti-TMC sentiment has been very palpable. I was recently in Kolkata, and almost everyone I talked to--across the social strata--complained about the decline of Bengal, corruption, lack of employment opportunities, etc. That was a very small sample size in a metropolis, but still the anger in the street was so visible for a visitor. But in Tamil Nadu, almost everyone underestimated the groundswell of anger towards the ruling party and the support Vijay had drawn. Even the most cynical observers, including those in government, told me Vijay's best show would be 15-20% votes and a handful of seats. I am not a psephologist, but I was really stunned by the crowds Vijay was drawing. The TVK's performance is phenomenal. Greater than AAP's. Tamil Nadu is one of the richest and most industrialised states in the country, with a population of 85 million. Vijay, who entered active politics just a few years ago, has changed the political landscape of the state forever. They thought they could block his movie, Jana Nayagan (People's Leader) to stop him from building momentum during the election months or weaken his spirit through repeated questioning by central agencies. Looks like Vijay turned everything into fuel for his populist, anti-establishment upsurge. Whether it's good or bad for the state, I don't know.

Sleepless in Tehran as crowds rally behind the flag — Saurabh Shukla and Saurabh Shahi report from Tehran for The Hindu. thehindu.com/news/internati…

More than half the world's countries fall into "difficult" or "very serious" categories; South Asia is among the hardest hit, with India at 157th, Pakistan at 153rd, Bangladesh at 152nd, and Sri Lanka at 134th Press Freedom Falls to a 25-Year Low Worldwide kashmirtimes.com/news/press-fre…

🚨 | India mulls turning to crocodiles and venomous snakes to ‘fence’ Bangladesh border. But why? "This is peak cruelty and dehumanisation of undocumented immigrants. It’s biopolitical violence of a new kind," @angshuman_ch tells us. Read @AJEnglish aje.news/2hn8ge

"The petitioner shall clean the premises of the Kashipur Police Station every morning between 6:00 a.m. & 9:00 a.m" Anti-mining protests in Odisha criminalised. Adivasi/Dalit protesters required to clean police stations as a condition for bail, @nikita_jain15 found the orders

A territory where over 220 journalists have been killed, newsrooms bombed flat, reporters starved and communications deliberately cut, is considered a freer place to do journalism than India. Why is that? We look at the latest RSF's press freedom index. newslaundry.com/2026/04/30/pal…

Raghu Rai’s portfolio of the 1984 Bhopal industrial gas disaster are among the most profound photojournalistic works of the last 50 years raghuraifoundation.org/bhopal/

Pahalgam, a year on: Resilience falters, tourism struggles. #MustRead by @peerashiq thehindu.com/news/national/…

Would be interesting to see the kind of company India under Modi keeps globally in automatically getting content blocked.

This is a very important piece to flag and recognise what we are doing to the urban migrant workers in our cities. SIR

TamilNadu #AssemblyElections 2026: A #robot distributing water bottles to voters at a polling station at Government Arts College in #Coimbatore on Thursday. 📹: @peri_periasamy / @THChennai @the_hindu

At Kranti, India’s first residential school for the daughters of sex workers, 80% go on to higher education. This year Mahek has got into Columbia University! In Mind the Gap, do read: Not rescue but revolution: Inside Kranti’s radical classroom hindustantimes.com/s/1S0zsHo

India is violating its obligations under international law: Francesca Albanese thehindu.com/news/national/…

A link for those who who wish to read my latest column 👇 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

In @htTweets, my piece on why the death penalty to the police officers in the Tamil Nadu custodial violence case is not a solution to the problem of police impunity: hindustantimes.com/opinion/ending…

'How does one survive?': Factory protests expose strain in India's industrial system bbc.in/41EUKHl

Five questions on ChatGPT use 500 ml of water. Bengaluru has 31 data centres guzzling water to do such tasks. And neither the water board, pollution control board nor the IT department can quantify their water use. Read the full report by @kavashivani. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/in-b…

45 days in, India's #energy sector is seeing two broad trends. As the government directs gas, etc, to a handful of sectors, everyone else (Households, small firms...) are falling back on the informal economy. Here is why. carboncopy.info/weeks-into-the…

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here. Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch. Let's go.