The Insider as the Outsider

At first, we barely knew what Rahul Gandhi thought. He hardly ever spoke, except during elections. His interventions in Parliament were erratic 'Kalavati' moments - headline grabbing narratives of sincere anguish that swiftly retreated into the mostly silent spaces from where they had suddenly emerged, just like the story of the Vidarbha widow who became a national name after he mentioned her, only to find that her life did not substantively change.

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