
Delhi’s Kite Runner: An amateur curiosity that explains effects of unplanned urbanisation
As a child growing up in Siwan, Bihar, Nishant Kumar couldn’t have missed all those birds around him even if he tried.
As a child growing up in Siwan, Bihar, Nishant Kumar couldn’t have missed all those birds around him even if he tried.
The RSS ideologue says that Indian experts, whose learning curve has been abroad, should experience India for a period like Mahatma Gandhi did.
Bhoomananda’s public interventions began with a protracted struggle to put an end to the popular ritual of singing obscene songs during the annual festival .
"I am not a political analyst, but when I look at it as a citizen, everything is possible in politics."
The almost five-decade-old CPM-RSS clashes in the northern district of Kannur — home to the new CM Pinarayi Vijayan — are now a potent stick for the BJP.
Chandy calculated that the decades-old war within the CPM — between Achuthanandan and Pinarayi Vijayan — would keep the Opposition divided.
The BJP has always taken part with gusto in Kerala polls, but this year, emboldened by the Narendra Modi factor, it has stitched together an NDA with a slew of caste organisations and is going in for the kill.
The CPM-Congress alliance that came from nowhere has shaken up Mamata Banerjee who was expecting a free ride for another five years.
The party state president Kummanam Rajasekharan says the BJP is at the vanguard of new people’s movements in Kerala displacing the Left.
For the Congress, it would be an uphill task to retain either Assam or Kerala, and avoid being left with Karnataka as the lone major state under its control.
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