Since I was being attacked for putting out pics or water logging in the central vista after heavy rain in Delhi, with suggestion that pics were OLD, I am putting out pics with time stamp of all the pics from THIS MORNING. Am sure drainage systems will improve with time! 🙏

So who will win Goa? Here is a thread: Goa has 40 constituencies, average size 25-30,000 votes. 8-10,000 votes is enough to win. Margins often less than a 1000 votes. This makes elections here transactional where every 500 votes ‘Earned’ count! Makes predictions tough (1) After 10 years in power, BJP is facing strong anti incumbency. Poor handling of Covid, corruption, job scams, unemployment have hit the Govt. BJP cadres are angry that party to quote one local karyakarta is ‘Congressified’. CM @DrPramodPSawant is ‘face’ of this discontent (2)

‘We’ve always believed that lockdown or opening up cannot be a knee jerk reaction at 24 or 4 hour notice’ ‘higher number of cases are a good sign, shows system is tracing and testing aggressively’ @AUThackeray on Covid fight is a must watch: @IndiaToday At a personal level, the interview made me a little nostalgic ; I interviewed his grandfather in 1988, @AUThackeray was not even born then! Balasaheb was one hell of an interviewee. Must confess to being impressed with Aaditya:came across as calm and focussed, making solid pts.

After spending a day on streets of NE Delhi,my takeaways 1) this is a Hindu Muslim riot in which BOTH communities have been involved in terrible acts of violence. Street Protests, provocation, attack, retaliation, a cycle of violence was unleashed.Tough to say who ‘started’ it. The police role needs to be investigated. Cops were outnumbered on Monday, ill prepared with no clear directive to act firmly. By Tuesday, cops accused of siding with one community as the retaliatory cycle got worse.

Big takeaways from @IndiaToday tv mood of the nation survey. A) CAA-NRC has sharply divided public opinion with a number of people uncertain about its impact while core BJP vote backs it. B) 42 per cent youth disconnect is the more worrying aspect for Modi Govt: #MOTN2020 Scrapping of Article 370 gets a thumbs up: 58 per cent feel its a ‘solution’ while the break up of J and K is seen as worrying. Detention of politicians is not supported. Net net Very nuanced response to Kashmir #MOTN20 @IndiaToday tv