I can’t help but appreciate the attitude of Mayawati. Seven months after she quit the Chief Ministers post after losing 2012 elections to the Yadav family of Uttar Pradesh, she came out of her fortified bungalow as queen bee today to address a mammoth crowd. Read more

For decades Uttar Pradesh kept churning out prime ministers one after another for the country. Despite its acute backwardness, the state never lagged on that count. But after the death of Rajiv Gandhi that suddenly stopped and other states took the lead. Read more

Ms Renu Narula , senior economics teacher at Loreto Convent School had following observations about the political system at a discussion held on the forthcoming elections in our office. Read more

I was enraged by Rahul Gandhi’s comment that had described the hardworking people of Hindi heartland as ‘beggar’. But after a while I thought what was wrong in the statement? Not the intent at least. Read more

Can you guess the dilemma of the Congress candidates in Uttar Pradesh nowadays? Not Anna Hazare. Not his campaign against corruption. Read more

When a whiff of freshness envelops the state and when dreams and aspirations deluge its people, we all know its New Year time. Read more

All the bonhomie that the Yadav chieftains of Hindi heartland — Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav –displayed in Parliament recently has disappeared in thin air. After all the hugs and kisses, the two Yadavs have their swords out at the political dangal. Read more