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Some well-meaning friends introduced me to a group called The Hash House Harriers, during my stay in Kabul in 2010\. It went with the tag-line – a group for “drinkers with a running problem” — an upside-down way of saying it was a place for alcoholics, wanna-be alcoholics and just plain old drinkers like me to congregate.

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Politics tends to be drab or depressing unless it’s topped up with a cheap glass or two, gulped down and guaranteed to sock you between the eyes. Or at least that is what *Dr Rajesh Dave believes and practises strongly with a few friends, all members of the Sangh Parivar.

I first met Dr Dave at his Ayurveda clinic in the old part of Ahmedabad city, where derelict shanties, like the one where he practised, stink of wet garbage and industrial waste.

Pakistan is gearing up for elections in July, which are expected to be the most aggressively contested polls in the country since the turn of the millennium. Not only has a fraught code of civility been broken down by political parties, accusations of institutional partisanship and meddling are at new heights. An air of uncertainty has enveloped a process essential to keeping Pakistan’s tenuous democratic credentials in place.

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The loss in Kairana is a definite reminder to my friends in the RSS, BJP and the Modi camp that if they lose UP, then Modi is likely to not become the prime minister in 2019. 

While it is true that predictions are dangerous in politics and things can change every few days, but as of now, Modi should be a worried man.