Uttar Pradesh
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Rahul Pandita
A deadly epidemic of encephalitis has broken out in eastern Uttar Pradesh. And the government remains clueless about its gravity
New Take on Retirement Benefits
A record number of serving and retired bureaucrats in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab prepare to contest upcoming Assembly elections in the two states next year
Burying the Truth Deeper
Were women of Bhatta-Parsaul raped, as Rahul Gandhi had alleged? Different state commissions can’t seem to agree
Old Tricks, New Battle
The VHP’s call to a Hindu ‘awakening’. Mob violence in Uttar Pradesh. Fearful minorities. The Ramjanambhoomi Movement is back. Whether it will work is less certain.
Jai Angrezi Devi Maiyya Ki
Can the enshrinement of English as a goddess help Dalits overcome their hardships? Good question.
The Rahul Plan
In the electoral fray of Uttar Pradesh, the Congress led by Rahul Gandhi aims to win over major Dalit sub-castes disenchanted with Mayawati.
Thread That Binds
200 Muslim families of two UP villages make the kalainara, the holy thread of Hindus.
India This Week
Kashmiri Pandits Threatened, Warn of Fresh Exodus; Destination BJP for Defectors; Coping with Copenhagen; and How to Harass a Man Who Volunteers Info
Rahul’s Muslim and Dalit Connect
The minority report on the man is also fairly upbeat. More than half the Muslims and Dalits polled in the survey feel Rahul is batting for them.
In Memory of Mayawati
If an etching of her presence on the template of history is what she wanted, that’s all she’ll have got at the end. Here’s how we’ll remember her
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