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Maharashtra

On the Kumbh Waterfront

Madhavankutty Pillai

Holy dip or drinking water—it should be easy for a government to choose

Shani Shingnapur: It Takes a Village to Raise a Legend

The truth about Shani Shingnapur, the village without doors and locks

The Meat Is Not On

Mumbai’s temporary ban on meat to humour one community sets a poor precedent

Mumbai’s Hooch Tragedy

Hooch was being sold in connivance with local cops and excise officials for some 30 years in the slums of Malwani, where the tragedy occurred

Scorched Life

Haima Deshpande visits the suicide-hit districts of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra to find lives maimed by debt, disease and poverty

Go Rural

From bullock rides to folk dances, a village experience that farmers in Maharashtra are offering can be an enduring memory

THE WATER WIVES

In a drought-stricken village near Mumbai, men marry a second—sometimes even a third—woman whose only role is to fetch water for the family

The Sena that no longer is

Uddhav Thackeray’s party is back with the BJP, but as a significantly weakened force

THE SHOW GOES ON

The second referendum on Modi propels reforms

The Constant Campaigner

For Narendra Modi, power is a permanent struggle

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