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Home is where the vote is…

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

…Or, is it that home is where the heart is but the heart is more than a cashbox?

The Wrestler Is Withering Away

Ullekh NP

Mulayam Singh Yadav was once called the Little Napoleon of Uttar Pradesh. Is he headed for his political Waterloo? Ullekh NP in the SP supremo’s home terrain finds intimations of a fadeout

Didi is singing alone this time

Sohini Chattopadhyay

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

Aanchal Bansal

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

Chinki Sinha

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 Call of the Cloud

Arindam Mukherjee

Adobe will only offer its software on an online cloud and no longer sell CDs. Is this a smart strategy for India?

The Veteran Debutant

Indrajit Hazra

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

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

Survival of the Savviest

Aanchal Bansal

Elections in the Age of Data Power

The Enduring Mystique of Naveen Patnaik

Ullekh NP

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