Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna, and Nidheesh MK. In this week’s edition, we bring you details of the restraining order obtained by Isha Foundation in the US against an Indian couple. The couple had alleged that their daughter was sexually assaulted by a teacher at Isha’s school in Coimbatore. In a Powertrip exclusive, we learnt that the Karnataka contractors’ association will write directly to Rahul Gandhi about corruption allegations against relatives of ministers. Amit Shah recently visited Chennai – with an entourage of national media journalists – to reset the BJP’s alliance with the AIADMK, but he could only achieve a partial win. Meanwhile, Shashi Tharoor’s staff remains busy denying rumours of him joining the BJP.