All the 39 seats in Tamil Nadu and one seat of Puducherry went to polls today. We spoke to some citizens, who came to cast their vote, about the NOTA option or None of the above option wherein people can refuse to vote for any candidate, and here`
On Thursday the city of Varanasi came to a complete standstill. And if there was one thing that could move or, say, crawl amidst a tsunami of people on the roads, it was the convoy of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
In Amethi, there is no palpable ‘Modi wave’ OR ‘BJP lehar’. Nor do the voters here identify themselves much with the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) anti-corruption pitch. In contrast, the Gandhi family still e
As a student of physics in the Gorakhpur university, BJP president Rajnath Singh must have learnt Newton`s Laws by rote. But as a practitioner of realpolitik, he would certainly have wished to reformulate the law on action and reaction.
Amartya Sen finds Indian politics a “disappointing spectacle”. In an interview with the Belgian news site Mondiaal Nieuws this mon
As one drives down Mathura to Etah and Etawah, one sees a vast expanse of treacherous and arid geography falling alongside the Yamuna and Chambal rivers that is regarded as the land of perpetual war. Mythologies and histories have shaped the psych
Will India return to the higher economic growth trajectory? Will Modi (if he becomes the PM) and his supposedly decisive administrative style boost the manufacturing sector and create jobs that a mammoth number of youngsters entering the economy w
April, wrote TS Eliot, is the cruellest month. Joe D’Cruz should know all about it. Till just the other day Sahitya Akademi winner D’Cruz, 51, was cruising along for the launch of the English edition of his first Tamil n
"Jaat na puchho sadhu ki (Do not ask the caste of the holy people)." This conventional wisdom has been turned on its head in the twin cities of Mathura-Vrindavan where innumerable stories surrounding Lord Krishna and his consorts weave a
Something bizarre happened earlier this year at IIT Madras. Ceiling fans and mixer-grinders, among others, were being distributed on the campus. Many staff members went “eagerly” to receive their share, according to Dr Sudarsan Padmana
Gangauli in Ghazipur district of eastern Uttar Pradesh is not just another village. Nearly 60 km from the district headquarters, this village on the banks of the Ganga owes its fame to the novelist Rahi Masoom Raza and his masterpiece Aadha Gaon (
Kashinath Singh, who might well be the most popular Hindi author of last decade, reminisces a time when Banaras was a garh – bastion – of the Left. It’s a late-March afternoon and I and historian Patrick French are
AAP has alleged that senior Congress leader Gurudas Kamat has indulged in corrupt electoral practices as per Section 123, subsection 4 of Representation of People Act, 1951 and 171G, 171H of Indian Penal Code. The party has lodged complaints again
Believe it or not, government websites in India are less vulnerable to `Heartbleed` bug. No, not because these websites have world’s best internet security protocols but because of the sluggish approach of government departments in the count
When I decided to book my Patna-Delhi return ticket for April 17 I never realised I was in for a shocker. “How will you reach airport? No three-wheeler or taxi will be available tomorrow, at least till 6 PM,” warned the senior journali
Dear diary, Got up in the morning again. I do, these days. Get up in the morning, that is. Gone are the times when I was the IPL boss and it was part of the brief to attend late-night parties and wake up late. Alas... (Note to self:
Good days are round the corner, says one of the BJP advertisements. Arundhati Roy, of course, disagrees. Her view? “I think that we are poised in a momentous and slightly dangerous space.” In an interview with Siddhartha Deb fo
Justification for Change I am fortunate to have witnessed Dr. Dinesh Singh twice justifying the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) course, especially defending the introduction of Foundation Course papers and on that
As people in 13 states go to the polling booth today (April 17), the large turnout of voters in all the phases, especially in crucial states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, indicates the intensity of the 2014 electoral battle. If this trend of high vo
The writing on the wall is pretty clear. Election in Tamil Nadu has narrowed down to AIADMK, DMK and BJP, despite surplus of candidates in all the 39 constituencies in the state. Going for Congress, which is politically isolated in Tamil Nadu, is
