 "Triumph of Victory: Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma (centre), along with party workers, celebrate the victory in the Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, in New Delhi on Wednesday Photo: PTI")
I am not an ‘election expert’. However, as the election results surprises us and made us understand the meaning of the changing political landscape in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, I began to recall a lesson that I learned from a profound Sufi story: This too will pass. But then, it is the intoxication with power, or the resultant narcissism, that makes all authoritarian rulers think that they are here forever; they love to entertain the illusion that ‘there is no alternative’.
Yes, for quite some time, the dominant ideology – backed by the powerful media houses, and celebrated by the
