A Day With Rahul Gandhi's Enemy*

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My colleague Rajesh is quite new to journalism. He's (was?) a civil service aspirant who had come our way about a year or so ago.

How Rajesh reports for you: He's the one having most fun this election season with all the traveling, meeting candidates and filing some incredibly insightful reports.

• There's a lot of quotes he gathers in the course of 3-4 days he spends in the constituency around the campaign.

• All the quotes, insights and pictures are nicely strung together to

  produce a coherent narrative for you - a 'slice of life' report.

• And then he packs off to the next destination - fun (in a sense) at company expense.

What he brought back from Wayanad: A day or two with BJP candidate K Surendran, an interaction with the CPI candidate and insights from over 50 localities who will have voted today!

• Insights include: what are K Surendran's chances? 2 lakh votes? Less than a lakh?

• Which is the 'vote bank' that actually backs Surendran this election?

• And why Wayanad's demography will easily reward Rahul Gandhi.

Strongly recommend reading Rajesh's report from Wayanad. Write to us about what you think.

Amar Govindarajan.

* Apropos the subject: The founder of this magazine labelled communists his enemy number one! K Surendran does become Mr Gandhi's enemy by Rajaji's standards.