Keeping up with UP: Ganesh Chaturthi continues to unite as politicians divide

India, Aug. 31 -- Mumbai displayed usual devotion and cohesiveness as men, women, and children chanting "Ganpati Bappa Morya" danced this week to drum beats on Ganesh Chaturthi. Maharashtra Navnirman ... Read More

Keeping up with UP: Pressure tactics before 2027 polls begin with caste meetings

India, Aug. 23 -- A section of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmakers and smaller allies, with limited influence, have started pressure tactics ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly election... Read More

Keeping up with UP | As floods ravage temples, will govt heed to ancient wisdom?

India, Aug. 17 -- If the planners wish to follow ancient wisdom, then the Ganga and other rivers have decided their territory for them to earmark, and not encroach. According to the Brihaddharma Pura... Read More

Winners and losers in times of political churn

India, Aug. 13 -- In the early 1980s, the tallest Brahmin leader of northern India and the Congress, Kamalapati Tripathi, had suggested that the party leadership appoint a Dalit chief minister (CM)in ... Read More

Winners and losers in times of political churn

India, Aug. 12 -- In the early 1980s, the tallest Brahmin leader of northern India and the Congress, Kamalapati Tripathi, had suggested that the party leadership appoint a Dalit chief minister (CM)in ... Read More

Keeping up with UP: Why insult women politicians in political slugfests?

India, July 28 -- The Samajwadi Party's (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav recently visited a mosque near Parliament House in New Delhi with his MP wife Dimple Yadav, who was attired in a saree. ... Read More

Keeping up with UP | Controversy over the policy to pair schools in the state

India, July 21 -- The year was 2001-02 and a video on then Prime Minister Atal Bihari's Vajpayee flagship national scheme 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan' was shot in scenic locations showing happy students go... Read More

Keeping up with UP: Tread carefully on Banke Bihari temple corridor in Vrindavan

India, July 1 -- In the months before Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor in (KVC) Varanasi in March, 2019, the state government had fought court cases an... Read More

Keeping up with UP: Can BJP penetrate the impregnable fortress of Mukhtar Ansari?

India, June 17 -- There's a legend about two gangster-turned-politicians of eastern UP. It goes like this: Mukhtar Ansari's deadly rivalry with Brijesh Singh dates back to his college days. He was fon... Read More

Chasing Dalit vote without addressing the social divide

India, June 13 -- At the 15th Convention of the Uttar Pradesh Scheduled Caste Federation held at the Ramlila ground in Agra on March 18, 1956, BR Ambedkar shared the reasoning behind his assertion tha... Read More

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