Migrants tend to miss their opportunity to cast their vote due to job compulsions. And this is true of labourers as well as white collar executives India has a colossal inter-state migration, which makes it a melting pot of cultures and people. In such a situation, with the mammoth task of getting at least 83 […]

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Reporting in the hinterland gives a glimpse of the position of women in society, and the picture is not pretty In the searing April heat of Mathura, camera around my neck, phone in pocket, notebook and pen at a 10-second backpack-to-hand distance — I was ready to run after Hema Malini as she visited villages […]

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How is public opinion shaping up in the three Delhi Assembly segments which did not vote for the Aam Aadmi Party in the 2015 poll? Patriot finds out The one-month countdown to Delhi’s Voting Day (May 12) for the Lok Sabha has begun. With a possible alliance between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the […]

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As the consumption of poultry products grows by the day, we need to look into how hens are being treated in cages the size of an A4 sheet At 16 weeks, they are ready to lay eggs. At 72 weeks, they are disposed of. Trait selected chicks yield 320 to 360 eggs a year, while […]

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On the campaign trail in her constituency Mathura, Hema Malini delivers stereotypical dialogues and sticks to the script of promoting Modi as the only PM who can save India from Pakistan Hema Malini’s two-storey home in Vrindavan is the only evidence she needs, it seems, to show that she is a ‘Vrindavasi’ and not an […]

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Discussions on Master Plan 2041 have thrown up the need for a city where people drive less, use more public transport and exercise the option to walk Can you see Delhi as being Singapore? That is Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s promise if the Capital is given statehood. But even as Master Plan 2021 nears its […]

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Village women who have headed panchayats as Pradhans have not quite been able to break patriarchal barriers but their brush with power has boosted their self-confidence “Ghar ki pradhan banna kaphi hai” (Being the leader of the house is enough) was one lady’s reply to a question I had asked several of them: Would you […]

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Shopkeepers in the area remember the shock of demonetisation and continue to suffer from neglect by the civic authorities The West Delhi constituency is a perfect example of the state of planning in Delhi — or the lack of. While you have the wide stretch of roads and empty spaces with parks in inner Dwarka, […]

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