
Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna. What happens when a Congress-led government lifts language from a BJP MP’s bill to fight fake news? Karnataka just gave us the answer.
Our second story is on the Maran brothers. We hear that Kalanithi and Dayanidhi have probably reached a truce. As speculations continue about Shashi Tharoor’s next move, we learnt from sources within the Congress that the high command is in no rush to act. They wait, leaving the ball in Tharoor’s court.
Read on for details.