A saffron tinge in the currents

Every day, hundreds of pilgrims from different parts of the country visit the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna, the sangam, in Allahabad to take a dip. The nishads (boatmen) row them to the sangam and listen to their chatter, which includes their voting preferences during elections. I have been visiting the sangam as a political pilgrim since the 1977 Lok Sabha elections, the momentous contest that led to the collapse of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency regime.

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