Job guarantee: Lost in BJP-Cong alphabet soup
MGNREGA – India’s employment guarantee scheme – is no more. GOI scrapped it last week and replaced it with another tongue-twister acronym: V...
What SIR doesn’t get about votes
Voting is a constitutional entitlement. But SC interprets it as a right subject to ordinary law New voter rolls are being made in a dozen ot...
Why those beyond Bihar are riveted by Bihar elections
As frequent as elections are in India, some are bigger and juicier. In that the themes resonate across the country, the contest is tight, an...
Do parties really understand Bihar’s young?
Scramble to woo youngsters ignores the price they pay to escape the stigma of unemployment As Bihar votes today on 141 constituencies, all e...
Women’s vote in Bihar’s election: Don’t miss the irony
For men, identities of caste, religion or ethnicity are always more prominent. Women’s gender disadvantage runs across all these identities....