The party's most important electoral challenge lies in whether it can meet the aspirations of the youth who were drawn by the promise of gainful work.

'The people of Goa have not given the BJP a mandate to form a government, but the fact is they are trying to form the government.'

'Like 2014, 2017 was also Modi's election.' 'Every voter you met, apart from those who are BJP cadres, everybody said they would vote for Modi, not the BJP.' 'The one and only factor is the Modi juggernaut. He is the one who turned the tide.' 'The wave which he created in 2014, and to maintain it for three years, is a huge task in itself.'

The question is no longer whether he will win 2019; it's what he will do with the new status, says Shekhar Gupta.

The two parties, however, are in a neck-and-neck race in Manipur and Goa.

'The monumental first Modi wrought in 2014, followed by the miracle in Uttar Pradesh, is not a matter for celebration, but an ominous warning of the perils ahead.' 'There are 5 areas which Modi has to address immediately and relentlessly if he has to live up to all that the people are taking him for,' says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant.

'Modi is larger-than-life, but not invincible. Yet,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.

Virat Kohli will face the toughest battle of his fledgling captaincy career when India take on a resurgent Australia in the second cricket Test.

India keen to take down Australia for perfect end to season.

Bracing for a challenging Test series against India who are having a dream run in the last 18 months, Australian players slogged it out in nets in Wednesday, two days after landing in Mumbai for the four-match rubber starting on February 23 at Pune.

Trump's foreign policy juggernaut has shelved the 'Deep State' and 'Axis of Evil'. But where is India?

How will young batsmen brought up on T20 learn to build an innings? What about the technique to patiently negotiate hostile seam bowling conditions or the skill to play on difficult dusty turners? What about leaving the swinging ball outside off stump?

A rampaging Roger Federer delivered a stunning reminder of his class at the Australian Open on Friday with a crushing 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 win over Tomas Berdych to storm into the fourth round.

'If the prime minister wants to be seen as a global statesman, then is it not embarrassing to be so closely associated with a gang of foul-mouthed bullies?' asks Vir Sanghvi.

Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin wreaked havoc as India defeated England by an innings and 36 runs.

Olympic bronze-medallist boxer and Rajya Sabha MP M C Mary Kom supported the government's decision to demonetise 500 and 1000 rupee notes, saying the move will stall the juggernaut of corruption.

'My grandmother taking me to the jamatkhana was like a different world.' 'Like I had a key to a door which no one else seemed to have.' 'She doesn't take me anymore because she says I'm an embarrassment!'

'It used to sound very strange.' 'That the same child who used to sing Jana Gana Mana the loudest in class, who celebrated August 15 and 26th January with such fervour and who has always nurtured the desire to make India a better nation being called desh drohi.' 'It was very painful.'

Nothing much, says Khushwant Singh.

'On October 18, 1972, MGR announced the formation of a new political party -- the ADMK.' 'MGR now become more deeply involved in politics and with that came a parting of ways between Jayalalithaa and him.' 'For Jayalalithaa this was, in a way, liberation.' An exclusive excerpt from Vaasanthi's Amma: Jayalalithaa's Journey From Movie Star To Political Queen.

Rediff.com brings a preview of the main matches coming up this weekend in the English Premier League.

'The more I lived in India, the more I realised that America was my home too.'

'It was the first document he had seen that asked him about his past in such detail; it was the only interest this country (America) had shown in his origins, and it was most inconvenient. To get ahead, he had to find out where he had come from.'

Shehla Rashid an active face of the student agitation during the sedition row in JNU to pen down her experiences about unrest in campuses.

Director Justin Lin injects his Fast and Furious vigour to the series, says Sukanya Verma.

Dabur has launched 44 products during the year.

Of the five towns planned, work is progressing in two, Dasve and Mogao.

The glittering career of Russian former World No 1 Maria Sharapova was in tatters after she was given a two-year ban by the International Tennis Federation. Check out the high points in her career...

An inchoate anger is brewing within the party against the central leadership after the poor show in the assembly polls.

Assuming office for the sixth time as chief minister, Jayalalithaa began a new chapter in her chequered political career.

As Kohli continues to score loads of runs, Gujarat Lion's Aaron Finch took to Twitter and requested, "Dear Virat Kohli, can you please stop making batting look so easy, it's embarrassing for most other batters in the world."

The AIADMK bagged 134 seats as counting of votes was taken up for 232 of the 234 assembly constituencies. Polling in two constituencies has been postponed to May 23.

Juggernaut's mobile reading app could be a game-changer, says Nilanjana S Roy.

'It is clear that Prashant Kishor will be nowhere near repeating his earlier massive wins.' 'Nonetheless, he deserves at least two cheers for having the guts to take on such a challenging task.'

The company plans to create a new class of non-voting shares.

Apple said it sold 51.2 million iPhones in its second fiscal quarter, down from 61.2 million in the same quarter a year ago but above analysts' estimates of about 50 million devices.

The memoir tells the story of his meteoric rise and equally dramatic fall.

India cannot aspire for great power status unless our leaders truly understand the meaning of national security. Cricket can wait and so can people to people contacts, book launches and Bollywood camaraderie. Let us get down to brass tacks on our counter-terror mission, says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).

Connectivity is what SAARC needs the most but Pakistan is not interested, says Rajeev Sharma.

'For a party with a fuzzy ideology, one that lives only for power, having a leadership that thought vaguely about returning to power in the distant future was a distinct handicap,' points out Mihir S Sharma.