The trouble is, it also would consign the economy to low-wage, menial tasks, instead of a better future with higher productivity, better jobs and a better quality of life for Indian citizens.

Rahul Gandhi going to a temple and getting photographed for the larger audience does make a pretty picture.

If a former Finance Minister, that too from within the BJP, finds fault with the state of the economy, normally, it should be treated as a matter of concern. But when one remembers that Yashwant Sinha has been a routine critic of Narendra Modi and his radical political moves to transform India, it in fact creates hope, not despair.

Modinomics needs serious "modification" and for once, the pun is desperately not intended.

In 2005, two years after Sameer Sahay arrived in the United States from India to pursue an MBA, he was thrilled when an Oregon health care company hired him and agreed to sponsor his green card. His life as an American, he thought, had begun.

Digvijaya Singh's decision to walk 3,400 kms through Madhya Pradesh over the next six months is a clear bid to stay relevant at a time when the Gandhis have not indicated whether it will be him, Kamal Nath, or the considerably younger Jyotiraditya Scindia who will chief the party in Madhya Pradesh, due to vote end of next year.

Now that growth has naturally slowed, as was inevitable, given the policy choices that Modi made, how will he balance these narratives? Can he afford to lose those middle-class voters who might actually conclude that he has done a bad job with the economy?

By sheer coincidence, I happened to arrive in Srinagar on a private visit on the very day, September 22, when Ram Madhav was quoted by Ashiq Hussain, the Srinagar correspondent of The Hindustan Times, as having said in the J&K capital, "We are open to dialogue".

45-year-old Yogi Adityanath was made Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in March this year despite zero administrative experience. It's showing.

The national executive filled the cadre with unwavering confidence that the future belongs to us, to a New India.

The stakes involved in making jets are much higher than with cement mixers and phones, of course. But Comac isn't flying blind. The most important components in the C919, including the engines and most electronics, are made by non-Chinese companies with decades of aerospace experience.

Both have attracted tons of writings over the years, but the connection between Gandhi and cricket has not been explored with much acumen.

The BJP government's stand on the issue is not in concurrence with India's great tradition and international standing. India has always stood by refugees.

Of the many cretinous remarks that have escaped the lips of Amit Shah's bearded visage, perhaps the most unlettered was his statement last week that the Congress only undertook yatras when they carried the ashes of their dead leaders around the country.

He was often called "the man who saved the world," and in some sense, he did. On the night of Sept. 26, 1983, in a period of Cold War tension, Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel on duty at a missile attack early-warning center south of Moscow, was jolted by an alarm of a U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile attack on the Soviet Union.