Thursday's election results from four states and one Union territory didn't make things too easy for headline writers because there wasn't one easy narrative playing out.
On the national stage, the story was certainly about the Bharatiya Janata Party's growing nationally at the expense of the Congress. But there was an equally important story to tell on the resounding victories notched up by the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, both of whom bucked anti-incumbency to return to power.
As a result, newspaper front pages on Friday are a mixed bag, with the national papers focusing on what this means for the Congress and the BJP, while regional ones devote their space to massive local mandates.
The Times of India and the Indian Express in Delhi focused on the big picture.
The Times' Chennai edition, however, was specific to Tamil Nadu, making a reference to Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's past as an actor, up against arch-rival M Karunanidhi who was once wrote scripts.
The Telegraph, which hasn't exactly been friendly to the Trinamool Congress over the past few months, delivered something of a peace offering.
In the south, the storylines were more clearly about the Communists' return to power in Kerala and Amma's re-election feat.
The Malayalam Manorama's headline reads "Keralam Sharivechu" (Kerala endorses), a reference to the Left Democratic Front's campaign slogan which had promised everything would get better if Red returned.
Dinamalar, meanwhile, added an exclamation to its headline about Victory for J!
And Asomiya Pratidin called the result a BJP tsunami.
