Election Commissions and voting machines can only tell us a superficial kind of truth. The substantive, eternal truth is that those who win are not always the winners, and those who lose are not necessarily the real losers. Never was this eternal truth more dramatically brought out than in the latest round of assembly elections in five states. Look behind the headlines to know who are the real winners and losers. The biggest winners are not Mamata Banerjee and Jayalalithaa.