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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Introducing Kiran Verma, ex BSP, now BJP’s newest calling card
द्वारा खबर लहरिया December 5, 2016Dalit. 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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Bright Lights, Big Stars: Chitrakoot’s First Mall’s Got Something Special
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 25, 2016“A friend of mine came back from Dubai the other day and she was flaunting her shoes…. They were nice, but she didn’t know (or have) what I did… ‘Girl,’…
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When this pink lady sings, you have no choice but to listen: The Phenomenon of Sampat Pal
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 21, 2016There’s a DJ in Banda who lives across a pink house and plays ‘Sampat Pal’ only songs, sometimes interspersed with celebratory music and songs about the Congress party. Deep in…
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Country-made arms, and the skills to use them: Meet Pushpa Goswami, commander, belan fauj
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 14, 2016Back in 2008 when Barack Obama was still President and Modi was inching his way towards Racecourse Road, there was a woman just touching 40 on the brink of a…
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“I’m just waiting on Raj Babbar to appoint me state president”
द्वारा खबर लहरिया November 7, 2016When we first met her in 2015, she’d told us she hadn’t really decided what party she was “going” with, if at all. “This we’ll get to know only in…