Bajrang Dal struggles to retain its place in the vanguard of the Hindutva movement in the post-Ayodhya era (Photos: Ashish Sharma)

It is not his Dalit identity alone that makes Ram Nath Kovind an ideal presidential choice

Sonia Gandhi returns to the daily management of a party that is too sick to be revived by her son

The fear in the corridor

Kumar Anshuman meets the underground leadership of Dalit assertion in western Uttar Pradesh

Modi reaps big political dividends through a series of low-profile reforms

The struggle for a united opposition to the resurgent BJP falls apart in the absence of a leader or a slogan

From timid villager to Hindutva’s warrior monk. The journey of Yogi Adityanath

The endangered clan

The BJP workers' new slogan in Lucknow, ‘No Confusion No Mistake, Gaye Akhilesh Gaye Akhilesh’

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