
Vandita Mishra
The Indian Express Group

Wednesday 4 November '09
When Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav fielded his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav for the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat vacated...Saturday 31 October '09
When Indira Gandhi returned to power in 1980 — in the election that marked her political rehabilitation after the Emergency — she won both seats she had contested.Sunday
25 October '09Dimple Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law, is the latest in the family to join the poll fray.Monday
12 October '09Jolted by the electoral setback in the Assembly bypolls and the first major caste-related massacre — 16 OBCs allegedly gunned down by Mahadalit Musahars — during his rule....Friday
11 September '09The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name....Thursday
10 September '09About 65 km from the Khajuraho temples that showcase some of the most evocative sculptures in India....Wednesday
9 September '09Nathu Ram has studied up to Class 5, owns two acres of non-irrigated land, and looks much older than his 48 years.Tuesday
8 September '09At the sleepy office of the Bundelkhand Vikas Nigam in Jhansi, senior assistant O P Gupta, lone member of the staff apart from a chaprasi and...Sunday
6 September '09Vallata paani chhe (the waters are receding). As Gujarat gears up for seven Assembly by-polls next Thursday, this is the phrase being spoken and heard....Sunday
9 August '09Leila Kabir Fernandes almost didn’t make it in time to witness George Fernandes being sworn in as a member of the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, August 4.Thursday
6 August '09They may have slowed down, and they don’t cause as much friction as they used to in the politically unsteady ‘90s, but the wheels of Mandal...Saturday
25 July '09It’s only the third time that a poll boycott has been announced in recent times, EC says no reason for AIADMK to be “extreme” ....Monday
20 July '09At One level, the war of words, and worse, that has erupted over Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s comments against UP Chief Minister Mayawati...Monday
6 July '09Uma Bharti, who was an accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case, maintains that those who led the agitation must now not disown the responsibility for it.Monday
6 July '09In the week the Liberhan Commission report was submitted, Uma Bharti, an accused in the Ayodhya demolition case...Tuesday
30 June '09Ever since the election of the 15th Lok Sabha, the spotlight has veered towards the issue of political representation of women....Monday
29 June '09Acknowledging the “arrogance and “bossism” of the Left parties’ cadres, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan spoke to Vandita Mishra...Monday
29 June '09One of the reasons flagged by the CPM central committee for the party’s debacle in the LS poll was the 'bureaucratic attitude and arrogance' of cadres.Wednesday
24 June '09On Monday, after the Union Home Ministry announced that it was adding the CPI(Maoist) in India’s official...Sunday
31 May '09At first glance, Dera Sachkhand, tucked away at one end of village Ballan...Monday
25 May '09Add this to the many stories being told about Verdict 2009. The number of women MPs elected to the new Lok Sabha....Sunday
17 May '09The verdict of 2004 was also a huge surprise, but it left a puzzle in its wake....Saturday
16 May '09As the results trickle in on Saturday, and as everyone gets down to complicated political sums, players across the political and ideological divide...Thursday
30 April '09The BSP’s sweep in Bundelkhand in the 2007 Assembly polls was apparently hard-won. People here still remember the painstaking work....Thursday
30 April '09Mayawati’s moment is passing. So give UP’s voters a real alternative