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With due apologies to H.G.Wells, I used his time machine to go 10 years in the future and being the ultimate armchair analyst, went to the virtual world first. I came across and interesting investigative report on a worrying situation in politics. The report is reproduced here. Since I am publishing it in their past, there are no troubling copyright issues. Incidentally, the author name is same as mine.   Politics faces Brain-drain New Delhi, 28 th Feb 2024 A surprising trend has been noticed in the political circles; the political parties are not finding enough candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Confirming this trend, our source in a national party said, “It is quite surprising, in fact shocking. Till last elections we used to have thousands of hopefuls standing in a queue for the party ticket to parliamentary elections. They would use all means possible, ethical or unethical, legal or illegal, democratic or fascist to impress, bribe, threaten ...