PM offers prayers at Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Tirumala, Andhra Pradesh in November 2023. (Prime Minister’s Office of India, Wikiimedia Commons, GODL-India)

At the height of the mammoth, seven-phased general elections in India spread across six weeks, I came across many rural Indians who liberally used the word tanashaahi, Hindi for dictatorship.

First published in Consortium News