It is this asymmetry that Nitish Kumar corrected by causing a split in the supposedly composite structure of the backward castes and sent him and his party to political wilderness. And now his son Tejaswi Yadav is playing second fiddle to him.
Nirnimesh Kumar
Nirnimesh Kumar
Nirnimesh Kumar is a retired journalist. He worked in The Hindu for 25 years where he covered the legal beat. But his interest is prolific, including politics and history. He is a post graduate in history from Delhi University.
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It is reported that youths are fleeing the country and finding it difficult to get flight tickets, and a huge cavalcade of cars have piled up on the border with Georgia to cross over into that country to avoid the military services.
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The question arises: why is the great historian figuring out a solution in his imagination to a dispute which got a solution to the satisfaction of the Hindus and the other side agreeing to it on finding itself cornered into a blind alley?
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It is worth recalling a more than a decade old case of cheating and forgery involving a piece of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) land in Model town in North Delhi. The Capital’s who’s who– politicians and bureaucrats– were involved in it.
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There are several organisations and collectives in the Capital to champion the causes of journalists but an institution located in the heart of Lutyens Delhi has come into focus in the past two decades for all the wrong reasons.
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FASTER, a platform to reach court orders to the parties immediately, is considered to be particularly effective in stopping execution of a convict, demolition of slums and to give bail to undertrials.
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‘How long will I fight them?’: Neelam Krishnamurthy, who fought Ansals in Uphaar fire tragedy
The Ansals’s security guards would pass lewd remarks against them whenever they went for the hearing, it was alleged.
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Undoubtedly, the Indian media finds itself in a deep crisis. It is buffeted by both internal and external attacks.
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It may be surprising for those who do not have personal experiences of how people vested with powers arrogate it to themselves and indulge in favourtism and nepotism with impunity as a culture of sycophancy and fear prevails in offices giving unfettered opportunities to the bosses to run the show as per their whims and fancies.