OBCs

A Worn-Out Old LP

Virendra Kapoor

Rahul Gandhi seems to be stuck on a caste survey without which, he suggests, the hitherto weaker castes cannot be expected to make any progress

The Ambedkar Dividend

Badri Narayan

Congress and its allies benefited from making the Constitution a political symbol

Modi’s Doosra

Rajeev Deshpande

In what could be a pivotal moment in the election, PM links Congress’s redistribution stance to its pursuit of quotas for Muslims at the cost of OBCs

The Karpoori Thakur Effect

Sajjan Kumar

Why Bihar’s icon deserves the Bharat Ratna

Rajasthan: Operation Desert Storm

Rahul Pandita

With the Sangh Parivar now going all out to help Vasundhara Raje win, is BJP back in the fray of a state where Congress saw its brightest hope?

Battle for Gujarat: Amit Shah in the Vanguard

PR Ramesh

The BJP president cannot afford to leave anything to chance in the most prestigious Assembly election

Modi’s Mandal: The Day of the Most Backward

Ullekh NP

Tapping the wrath of ‘lower’ OBCs is a strategy that the BJP Government expects will pay off as it goes ahead with a major overhaul of the backward quota system

More to Moditva

Ullekh NP

The aggrieved, the aspirational, the awed and the austere. The anatomy of a history-shifting verdict

The Unreasonable Jats

Kumar Anshuman

Why they remain aggrieved, always. Kumar Anshuman travels to Jassia in Haryana on the eve of another agitation to find out

The Liberation Struggle of Bihar

PR Ramesh

The BJP stands to gain from a revolt brewing among Dalits, lower Backwards and a section of upper OBCs against the political clout of Yadavs and Kurmis