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One big unhappy family

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...
‘She was always the boss’

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.
The bahu steps out

Sunday 25 October '09

Dimple Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law, is the latest in the family to join the poll fray.
Nervous Nitish climbs down, says BJP migrant stand in Maharashtra no issue

Monday 12 October '09

Jolted 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....
Caught in power play, these villages still in search of light

Friday 11 September '09

The school in the hamlet of Bagraha in Chitrakoot district has three rooms, but these are built only in name....
Colours of knowledge on walls of hope

Thursday 10 September '09

About 65 km from the Khajuraho temples that showcase some of the most evocative sculptures in India....
NREGA wages: 20 km away, 15 days late, and only once a week

Wednesday 9 September '09

Nathu Ram has studied up to Class 5, owns two acres of non-irrigated land, and looks much older than his 48 years.
Everyone fights for this region but no one wants to own it

Tuesday 8 September '09

At 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...
Why Gujarat CM is now Narendra Low-Key Modi

Sunday 6 September '09

Vallata 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....
Leila and George

Sunday 9 August '09

Leila 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.
Mandal modified

Thursday 6 August '09

They 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...
As anti-EVM chorus grows, EC stands its ground

Saturday 25 July '09

It’s only the third time that a poll boycott has been announced in recent times, EC says no reason for AIADMK to be “extreme” ....
The fuel in Rita-Maya fire: Cong emergence as BSP’s main rival

Monday 20 July '09

At 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...
Tasted malai twice in name of Ram, must get ready for jail: Uma

Monday 6 July '09

Uma 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.
‘Nobody could control the crowd that day... but we called them there (Ayodhya)’

Monday 6 July '09

In the week the Liberhan Commission report was submitted, Uma Bharti, an accused in the Ayodhya demolition case...
Women of the House

Tuesday 30 June '09

Ever since the election of the 15th Lok Sabha, the spotlight has veered towards the issue of political representation of women....
‘Instead of being with the people, you (Left cadres) became above the people’

Monday 29 June '09

Acknowledging the “arrogance and “bossism” of the Left parties’ cadres, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan spoke to Vandita Mishra...
'Cadres, people like fish, water... Can’t be a shark'

Monday 29 June '09

One 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.
Left shifts to Centre on ban, says criticism misplaced

Wednesday 24 June '09

On Monday, after the Union Home Ministry announced that it was adding the CPI(Maoist) in India’s official...
Inside Dera Sachkhand

Sunday 31 May '09

At first glance, Dera Sachkhand, tucked away at one end of village Ballan...
New Lok Sabha will have most women MPs ever

Monday 25 May '09

Add this to the many stories being told about Verdict 2009. The number of women MPs elected to the new Lok Sabha....
Why 2009 may be most startling verdict since 1977

Sunday 17 May '09

The verdict of 2004 was also a huge surprise, but it left a puzzle in its wake....
In post-poll noise, listen to the sound of words being eaten...

Saturday 16 May '09

As the results trickle in on Saturday, and as everyone gets down to complicated political sums, players across the political and ideological divide...
BSP won’t repeat sweep in Bundelkhand, but Kalyan hasn’t taken SP far

Thursday 30 April '09

The BSP’s sweep in Bundelkhand in the 2007 Assembly polls was apparently hard-won. People here still remember the painstaking work....
The politics of resignation

Thursday 30 April '09

Mayawati’s moment is passing. So give UP’s voters a real alternative
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