Tum 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…
A 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…
The 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…
Privilege 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,…
अखिलेश 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…
“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,…
[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…
Single 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…
Like 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…
Dalit. Woman. Not the usual two descriptors that come to mind in the popular imagination of a politician, or even a prospective one. And why is that, you sometimes wonder.…
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