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India
Didi is singing alone this time
As Mamata Banerjee rides a wave of triumphalism, Sohini Chattopadhyay in West Bengal says all is not as funny as the Trinamool leader’s limericks
Khap of Good Hope
In Haryana, a 70-year-old Sarpanch changes a centuries old tradition by permitting intercaste and intra-khap marriages
The Poetry of Dynasty and the Prodigal Son
Where Rahul Gandhi is an ancestral memory and Varun Gandhi is the intimate Other. Chinki Sinha discovers the dynamics of dynasty as she travels through Amethi, Rae Bareily and Sultanpur
The Veteran Debutant
Arun Jaitley plays the Punjabi to perfection in his maiden parliamentary battle from Amritsar. Indrajit Hazra gets a ride in the BJP leader’s campaign Toyota
Power Shift in Gangster Land
Once the Mumbai don took refuge in Uttar Pradesh after a hit job. Today it is the criminal politicians of UP who use use Mumbai as a safe house. S Hussain Zaidi, India’s foremost chronicler of the Underworld, writes on the new balance of power in the ever-expanding mafia world
The Enduring Mystique of Naveen Patnaik
As the Odisha Chief Minister is all set for a fourth term, Ullekh NP, travelling across the state, finds out why one of India’s suavest politicians is the smartest as well
Patriarch in Pathos
At 90, he is presiding over a disintegrating dynasty, and this election could be the last electoral battle of a man who scripted some sensational moments in Dravidian politics. Vaasanthi captures the agony of being M Karunanidhi
Fear at the Top
A new government means a new set of favourite bureaucrats. Who will stay on and who won’t?
The Meaning of Candidate Nilekani
Hope and fears about the future of technocratic imagination
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