It’s so good to be back to the grime of Mumbai. My five-day visit to Varanasi, Chhapra and Patna confirmed the belief what most mediawatchers have been saying: Television is a huge influencer in General Elections 2014.

But what I was trying to probe and must confess failed to determine was whether the electorate is going to take decisions on the basis of what they watch every day on the news channels, or do their own thing.