India, May 9 -- Indian politics was once ideological. Leaders fought elections on vision, sacrifice, and conviction. Today, politics resembles a never-ending reality show where morality changes every hour, enemies become allies overnight, defeated leaders refuse to leave, governors become political referees, and constitutional institutions are dragged into public street fights.

The political developments unfolding in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu in May 2026 have exposed the most hilarious - and dangerous - side of modern Indian democracy. What we are witnessing is not merely political competition. It is the transformation of governance into high-voltage entertainment where power matters more than mandate, optics matter more than ethics, an...