A student body leader is a first-time candidate from SP this #UPElections2017 Not too long ago, though it does seem like another era already, in 2015, a young woman,…
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- Englishचित्रकूटचुनावी दंगल 2017ताजा खबरेंबुंदेलखंड
Chitrakoot’s RK Patel: The Party-Hopping Politician
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 12, 2017Tum to Thehre Dalbadlu, Saath Kya Nibhaaoge? It’s a species specific to Indian rajneeti – the turncoat politician who swaps parties and ideologies and stands on core issues, in the…
- Englishचुनावी दंगल 2017फैजाबाद
Bazmi, Bicycles and the Buzz in Ayodhya
द्वारा खबर लहरिया February 6, 2017A bicycle is never just a bicycle in UP. We met recently a businessman peddling cycles who hasn’t been able to resist the magnetic lure of rajneeti. It’s a lucrative…
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An Independent Appeal: The Curious Case of Banshi Lal Yadav
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 29, 2017The electoral process is a funny one. We have our daily newsfeeds, for instance, with #NotMyPresident posts fuming with rage, rage that has already sublimated into community marches, workouts, Tai…
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The day a toothbrush got Lallu murdered
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 23, 2017Privilege is a curse. A visit Maleficent paid you while you were in your cradle, unaware, on the verge of growing up, ready to blossom into a privileged human being,…
- Englishचुनावी दंगल 2017
In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Cycle
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 13, 2017अखिलेश भैय्या का तो सब कुछ सही है* The family battle between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and the founder of Samajwadi Party and incumbent president, Mulayam Singh Yadav, is not…
- Englishचुनावी दंगल 2017ताजा खबरेंबाँदाबुंदेलखंड
Get Up, Stand Up: An Entire Village Takes to the Ultimate Protest
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 8, 2017“Everyone can go jump in a well,” was a feminist friend’s succinctly feminist last-word declamation on the New Year’s Eve molestation episode in Bangalore that played out everywhere – TV,…
- Englishचित्रकूटचुनावी दंगल 2017ताजा खबरेंबुंदेलखंड
Bundelkhand’s Robin Hood & Criminal Extraordinaire: Dadua, A Legend, A Legacy
द्वारा खबर लहरिया January 1, 2017[Part 1 of a series exploring the legend of Dadua, in the context of the 2017 UP election] “Dadua? He used to hang around here a lot. We’ve met him…
- Englishऔरतें काम परचित्रकूटताजा खबरेंबुंदेलखंड
That Funny Thing Called Izzat, or, Surefire Ways to Ruin Young Lives
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 26, 2016Single mother. अविवाहित माँ Potatoes, potaatoes? In a world that rules via rhetoric, language remains one of the most powerful means of manipulation. And in an era as polarised as…
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‘Someone who benefits from the status quo can never bring change’: Daddu Prasad and the politics of Bundelkhand
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 19, 2016Like everything else in Bundelkhand, the political scenario here is a muddy-grey, slow-moving cesspool. It’s a land borne in and of strife, vindictiveness, struggle; a land that has pushed a…