Nitish Kumar’s new volte-face: Events, causes and possibilities
Nitish Kumar’s volte-face and return to the Mahagathbandhan reeks of opportunism and desperation as the BJP turned it into a docile tool.
Nitish Kumar’s volte-face and return to the Mahagathbandhan reeks of opportunism and desperation as the BJP turned it into a docile tool.
The students’ agitation against RRB NTPC results reached a peak in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. What had sparked this agitation? What’s its goal?
What do the 2021 bypoll results indicate? Was this a mandate against the BJP and the Modi regime? Or was it hyper-local reaction to policies?
Despite housing the world’s second-largest Muslim population, India has a very skewed ratio of the community’s share in politics and power.
What does the Bihar Assembly election results indicate about the BJP’s performance? Did it fare well? Or there is a sign of waning support?
Will the 2020 Bihar Assembly election results change the lives of the landless and poor Dalits and tribal people of the state? Will it provide land?
The children’s death due to AES in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, has a malnutrition and poverty angle to it that no one is talking about.
Recently, Lalu Prasad Yadav was convicted by a special CBI court of Jharkhand in one of the cases of the Fodder Scam and he’s now thrown behind the bars for three and half years, for the second time since he was convicted in the same scam in October 2013. Since this verdict, the political amphitheatre … Read more
During his maiden trip to Bihar after Nitish Kumar’s dramatic volte-face, Narendra Modi claimed that his government ensures that all schemes are implemented unlike the previous government’s schemes, which, according to Modi, were not implemented and the consecutive governments before Modi never fulfilled any promises made to the people. Narendra Modi was laying the foundation … Read more
The recent somersault in the politics of Bihar, following Nitish Kumar’s sudden return to the BJP’s lap, caused an upheaval throughout the country, forcing the mainstream media to junk every other news and stories to spend time in decoding the cryptic political back-channel processes that opened the doors to the former NDA ally and a … Read more
(This article was first published in August 2015 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The fields of Bihar were crimsoned since centuries with the blood of the poor and downtrodden peasants, mostly … Read more
(This article was first published in June 2015 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The recently concluded deal between the newly amalgamated parts of the erstwhile Janta Party, namely the RJD … Read more