Vandita Mishra
The Indian Express Group
Thursday 30 April '09
Mayawati’s moment is passing. So give UP’s voters a real alternativeTuesday 28 April '09
If you want to meet the core BSP voter, you might take the dirt track off the Lucknow-Kanpur highway to a village that has no roads and no electricity.Monday
27 April '09The local SP leaders and notables on the stage have a truly unenviable task under the scintillating sun in the dust-choked maidan....Saturday
25 April '09As Mayawati’s chopper touches down on the ground of the State Inter College, the slogans shouted from the stage are rousing...Sunday
5 April '09It recently shot into the national headlines for Varun Gandhi’s hate speech, but tiny Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh still remembers the time when it was known for making music.Tuesday
31 March '09The 2004 Lok Sabha results defied all predictions and underlined that India was, in the words of a commentator, a “polity struggling to interpret its own meaning”.....Monday
30 March '09If constituents of the born-again Third Front are pinning their hopes on Mayawati’s BSP, they would do well to heed the BSP chief’s aversion to pre-poll alliances.Monday
16 March '09As campaign 2009 kicks off, a new constituency is taking centre-stage. Political parties and candidates are hectically reworking their strategy and idiom to appeal to ‘Young India’......Tuesday
10 March '09Late last week, the BJD walked out of its alliance with the BJP, an enormously consequential decision for politics in Orissa as well as at the Centre.....Friday
27 February '09As the 14th Lok Sabha drew to a close today, those looking for a story could chew on some broad themes. Here’s one: if Parliament is primarily the forum for the opposition.....Wednesday
25 February '09A study has shown that in last five years, the percentage of governments losing elections has slipped below 50% mark — to just 46%.Wednesday
25 February '09A study has shown that in last five years, the percentage of governments losing elections has slipped below 50% mark — to just 46%.Tuesday
17 February '09It's early days yet, but it is possible to mark out a distinct feature on the pre-poll landscape.Tuesday
10 February '09As former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh reworked his position on the demolition of the Babri Masjid, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls....Monday
9 February '09As former UP CM Kalyan Singh reworked his position on Babri demolition, the key protagonists in their own right in 1992, were watching and remembering, in different ways, the movement that brought them together and then splintered.Wednesday
4 February '09In his three years in power, Kumar has been credited with efforts to turn around the state that had languished at the bottom in terms of development in the earlier regime.Tuesday
3 February '09As Lok Sabha elections draw close now, the Bihar CM Nitish Kumar is once again in the spotlight. Following are the excerpts from a conversation with Vandita Mishra...Thursday
15 January '09The readers of Screen chose Akshay Kumar, but Akki chose Aamir Khan. The readers chose Aishwarya Rai, but Ash chose the entire crew of Jodhaa Akbar.Friday
9 January '09On her birthday next week, Mayawati’s best gift to herself will be patienceFriday
2 January '09Lalu Prasad Yadav, former Bihar chief minister and currently Union Railway Minister, is a prominent and outspoken member of the ruling UPA.Wednesday
31 December '08In Indore on Sunday, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh claimed that the militants who attacked Mumbai...Saturday
20 December '08The NDA was made up of 24 parties when your party joined it in 1999.Tuesday
9 December '08Pollsters were banished by the EC’s diktat but there were still the theorists. The results of Assembly elections 2008 pose a serious setback to this breed as well - underlining the fact that the voter is always steps ahead of the pundit.Friday
5 December '08As T-shirts flaunt No Votes, No Taxes, as placards shout All Politicians Are Terrorists, as talking heads on TV work up their anger...Friday
28 November '08It was a very small group of journalists that gathered in the afternoon a little over a month ago, on Oct 11, at 1, Teen Murti Marg.
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