India, July 17 -- The Parliament will assemble for the monsoon session next week. It will meet in very different circumstances compared to its last sitting in April. The Budget session of Parliament ended with the government failing to muster a two-third majority to pass a bill that clubbed the rollout of women's reservation with the delimitation of constituencies. It was the first time the Narendra Modi government actually lost a vote since it assumed power in 2014. To be sure, the loss was pre-ordained, as it did not have the required numbers, but the fact that it pushed for a vote suggested a political motive, which this column had then described as a political decoy. What was also remarkable during that vote was the opposition prevent...