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kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Uttar Pradesh Polls: Encouraging New Signals!
11 Jan 2022
Many Shudra, OBC, Dalit, and Adivasi people have seen through the false RSS-BJP claims to unite Hindus. Leaders like SP’s Akhilesh Yadav need to convert this dissent into votes.
Ajaz Ashraf
‘Uttarakhand’s Upper Castes Support BJP to Preserve their Domination’—CPI Leader Samar Bhandari
07 Jan 2022
Understanding why defence personnel tend to support Hindutva and the environment does not become an election issue in the hill state.
Afzal Imam
UP Polls: Divisive BJP Agenda vs Public Angry after Covid, Eco Crisis
30 Jul 2021
The quest to conquer Uttar Pradesh in the Assembly election next year has intensified.
Ajaz Ashraf
Wooing Brahmins is as Good as Walking into Adityanath’s Trap
28 Jul 2021
Data show that Mayawati did not win the 2007 Assembly elections because of Brahmin votes. The desertion of Dalits from the BSP led to her losing in 2012.
Saurabh Sharma
From Ram to Parashuram – Wooing of Brahmin Votes Begins in UP
24 Jul 2021
BSP has already announced its decision to hold meetings with prominent members of the brahmin community in different districts of the state ahead of the Assembly elections in 2022.
Mohammad Sajjad
A Political Journey Into Rural Kanpur
16 Jul 2021
A new book accurately traces the roots of political venality and corruption, but misses some of the history of empancipation, which also occurred through politics.
Asad Rizvi
UP Polls: Will Opposition Plan to Focus on Public Interest Issues Overshadow Caste, Communal Factors?
05 Jul 2021
The Adityanath-led BJP government faces huge incumbency challenges, such as COVID mismanagement, stray cattle menace, cane arrears, unemployment among others.
Mohd. Imran Khan
Bihar Elections: Kurmi Loyalty with Nitish in Nalanda, but Other Caste Groups Want Change
30 Oct 2020
Harnaut/Biharsharif/Asthawan (Bihar): In what is being termed as the toughest challenge in his political career, chief minister Nitish Kumar seems to have retained loyalty from his own community (k
Tarique Anwar
Bihar Elections: Musahars, Numerically Significant Yet ‘Otherised’
28 Oct 2020
The marginalised community, majority of which continue to live in abject poverty, is likely to play an important role in king making, post the three-phase elections in the state.
Saurav Kumar
Bathani Tola Killings: Victims Allege ‘Subversion of Justice’ in 15 Years of Nitish Kumar
26 Oct 2020
“Maine Bihar ke logon ko narsanghar k daur se nikala hai” (I have rescued the people of Bihar from the era of massacre)—these were the words of Bihar’s incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kuma