Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna. This week, we bring you the lowdown on the Shashi Tharoor controversy that erupted after his “other options” remark. With Siddaramaiah reaching his half-term as Karnataka CM later this year, we tell you what’s behind his carefully maintained truce with DKS. For Prashant Kishor, the Bihar Assembly elections is a high stakes gamble that could decide both his future as a politician and his credibility as an election strategist.