Day 1,709: bastion, mandate

In the party’s one southern bastion, Karnataka, the bjp lost control of the state legislature in elections in 2023. Mr Modi dreams of running a modern, tech-enabled central government that reaches across the whole country. Yet for all his electoral triumphs, he still lacks a truly national mandate.

To see India’s future, go south

Artwork of the day 
Odessa. Quarantine bastion
Sergey Ryabchenko
Original Title: Одесса. Карантинный бастион
Date: 1954
Style: Realism, Socialist Realism
Genre: cityscape
Media: linocut, paper
Dimensions: 35 x 52 cm

Word of the day 
bastion: something that keeps or defends a belief or a way of life that is disappearing or threatened:
mandate: the authority given to an elected group of people, such as a government, to perform an action or govern a country:

Quote of the day
“It’s the ignorant who find a cause and cling to it, for within that is the illusion of significance. Faith, a king, queen or Emperor, or vengeance…all the bastion of fools.”

― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates