From The Editor-In-Chief

Give a man a fish, they say, and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. With the general election less than three weeks away, India's politicians have launched into what I call Dole Melas', competitive populism, that aims to attract voters with promises to hand out money.

Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed critic of the dole culture, has had to play catch-up. Speaking at the india today conclave this March, he derided the dole culture, saying it was not aimed