Robin David
Robin David is resident editor of The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition. His first book, City of Fear, was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2007.
Do political benefits from welfare schemes, or ‘revdis’ as Prime Minister Narendra Modi calls them, diminish over time? Can state governments harvest votes from free power and free bus rides forever, or do citizens start seeing these as their right, not as a favour, and find other reasons to vote or not vote for governments?
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