Above the Fold: Top stories of the day
1. E-commerce giant Flipkart walked away from an Airtel plan to provide its service for free, saying it was committed to ensuring net neutrality.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose's grandson that he would personally look into the classified files concerning Bose's death.
3. The International Monetary Fund is projecting India's economy to grow faster than China's this financial year.

The Big Story: AAP rebellion doesn't turn into a party
Senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders-turned-rebels Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan said they would not be leaving the party, despite being chucked out of its top decision-making bodies for disagreeing with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Instead, Yadav and Bhushan announced the establishment of a "non-political outfit" called the Swaraj Abhiyan that would struggle for self-rule at the grassroots level.

The new outfit held a show of support at its first meeting in Gurgaon on Tuesday, with more than 2,000 members turning up and support being lent by one Member of Parliament from the party as well as former Members of Legislative Assembly. The group collectively voted not to leave AAP, with many hoping that this is simply a temporary phase after which they can return to the party.

The AAP leadership, however, was not too pleased. The party's Political Affairs Committee is likely to refer Yadav and Bhushan to its disciplinary panel, claiming that the Swaraj Abhiyan group is defaming AAP. With Yadav, Bhushan and the rest not leaving willingly, it's likely there will be more political maneuvering to formally kick them out of the party.

The Big Scroll: Scroll.in on the day's biggest story
Arvind Kejriwal may have won the skirmish against Yadav and Bhushan, but the fallout from the battle will continue to hurt and the real struggle is up ahead.

Politicking & Policy-ing
1. The Janata Parivar merger of six different political parties is likely to be announced today, with the aim of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.
2. Congressmen continue to come out in favour of party president Sonia Gandhi instead of her son, Rahul,  with Sheila Dikshit the latest to say Sonia should lead.
3. The All India United Democratic Front, a party that primarily courts Bengali-speaking Muslims, managed to win four seats in the Bodoland Territorial Council, traditionally the bastion of the Bodo People's Front.
4. The Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s draft internal report blames its current malaise on an ageing membership, weak state leaders and an inability to properly support social causes.

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Punditry
1. Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express points out all the many ways we have failed founding father BR Ambedkar, saying our overdetermined view of history evades questions of complicity and guilt.
2. The cable television industry has already had its neutrality debate, writes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar in the Business Standard, and that should inform the web battle too.
3. A leader in the Economic Times calls on India to have a declassification policy for secret documents to ensure that they will be subject to scrutiny.
4. Swaminathan Aiyar, also in the Economic Times,  says the idea that India needs to have full capital account convertablity, essentially being able to convert rupees into dollars without restraint, is misguided and dangerous.

Don't miss
Neha Dixit tells the story of a singer spreading Ambedkar messages across North India through music.
Mehra kept switching registers, moving between songs and standup comedy. Each time he picked a reference from the Hindu epics, he reiterated, “It is not me who is saying this, it is their own holy texts.” In one sequence, he said, “Their Lord Ram went on an exile but who did he kill in those 14 years? Our Dalit rulers. Taadka, Maarich, Bali-Sugreev, Shambukh. Still he is God. No one talks about it. It is a way to erase the Dalit history for convenience.”