Search View Archive

Tabish Khair

Tabish Khair is an Indian journalist, critic, novelist and poet. His latest book is the novel, Filming: A Love Story (Picador, 2007).

Letter to India: The Platform of Hope

By Tabish Khair

The most predictable thing about national elections in India seems to be their relative unpredictability. At least opinion and exit polls get it vaguely wrong almost every time, and this time they were sometimes glaringly off the mark.

An Indian voter reads a political pamphlet distributed during a rally of the Indian National Congress in the western Indian city of Mumbai. Photo by Al Jazeera English.
ADVERTISEMENTS
close

The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

All Issues
Close ×
The Brooklyn Rail

Sign up for the Brooklyn Rail newsletter

Get notified about upcoming live conversations with artists and when the next issue of the Rail drops.

Sign up