Powerful local players. Rooted regional sensitivities. A host of political miscalculations. And an inability to catch the pulse of the South. All this has limited the Modi Wave to the north of India.

Why BJP loses out in the south: Why Narendra Modi's saffron party is unable to cross the Vindhyas in victory

Narendra Modi's Hindu new India, Hindutva, saffron wave, Pulwama, Balakot, Pakistan, Hindu voters

Tsu-NaMo 2.0: What made Narendra Modi win?

Srijana Mitra Das in conversation with Shwweta Punj

It wasn't so much the Congress' weaknesses as the strength of Narendra Modi's imagined new India, rich, powerful, globally confident and stridently Hindu, that won Lok Sabha 2019.

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Why BJP loses out in the south: Why Narendra Modi's saffron party is unable to cross the Vindhyas in victory

Tsu-NaMo 2.0: What made Narendra Modi win?

A New Idea of India: Congress simply paled before Narendra Modi's vividly saffron new nation