Last week, the Congress’s Lucknow MLA Rita Bahuguna Joshi visited several districts in drought-hit Bundelkhand. This January, Congress Vice-President is slated to visit the region to highlight the widespread farm…
On January 7, IIT-BHU terminated visiting professor Dr Sandeep Pandey’s contract. No explicit reason was cited in the termination letter. According to Professor Pandey, IIT-Director Rajeev Sangal said it was…
Are Haryana’s new electoral restrictions, upheld by the Supreme Court, the beginning of the end for rural women’s enfranchisement in India? Will other states follow in applying absurdly elitist restrictions…
Imagine, just for a moment, that the new panchayat law upheld by the Supreme Court on December 11, 2015 was for Uttar Pradesh, not Haryana. What would have happened then?…
This year, my father contested the Gram Panchayat elections from Kashai Gram Panachyat in Karwi Block of Chitrakoot district. He contested the elections against 30 candidates. I have reported on…
Varanasi will soon be a smart city, we hear. We hear that it will develop on the lines of Kyoto in Japan; a smart twin thousands of kilometres away. This was…
“You want my introduction?” She flashes her dimple, for the first and last time. Then, she looks straight into the camera. “My name is Sheelu Nishad. I’m contesting from Gram…
On November 24, at a farmer protest in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh, Haridev Singh told a story. The story goes that there was a dead elephant in the palace.…
On November 22nd, VP Rajeena, a reporter from Kerala posted on Facebook a personal account of sexual harassment in a Madrasa. In her post, Rajeena elaborated on how a middle-…
In Faizabad district, eastern Uttar Pradesh, drought wears an unlikely colour. Paddy fields (the last of the monsoon (kharif) harvest run alongside the NH28, glistening in a iridescent green. While…
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