While my Amma tried to get me to love reading, I developed a passion for being seen with books. On Instagram, I found such people in hordes, posing with coffee mugs, colourful markers, blank notepads, and expensive gadgets with captions like, “A book is to heart what poop is to pee.”

I am the third member of my family to become an MP. The BJP has always found a brilliant candidate in the Deols time and again. After all, the only leftist things in our house are my two feet. Just a reminder, as you’ve seen in Border, I was the first man ever to conduct surgical strikes in enemy territory.

Biographical films, by design, are expected to remain true to facts. But PM Narendra Modi is bound by no such restrictions, mainly because director Omung Kumar hasn’t made a film. Instead he’s directed a 131-minute-long product placement of Narendra Modi.

The ill-fated ventures that were Rahul Gandhi’s election campaign and the final season of Game of Thrones have many parallels. But perhaps the greatest similarity between the two is the feeling of utter dissatisfaction at the way things panned out in the end and the hype around The Prince that Was Promised.

Omung Kumar B, the director of PM Narendra Modi, is a man of contradictions. He claims he is not “politically inclined” but endorses the Prime Minister by directing a biopic on him. He insists that he is a neutral filmmaker, because he did not meet the PM – only sought his permission.

After the EVM theory failed, non-BJP leaders say they have unveiled a bigger conspiracy. It is not the machines but the people of the country who have been hacked, they say.

Disappointment for the anti-Modi crowd was as inevitable as someone saying “Winter is coming,” on a Game of Thrones episode. Still, that doesn’t make the bitter pill any easier to swallow. These are the five stages of grief, as experienced by non-BJP supporters.

In a country of 1.36 billion people, the most talked about thing right now is a machine – the EVM. As elections come to a close, we look back at all the drama surrounding EVMs: It involved malfunctions, court complaints, and now alleged tampering.