Jaideep Hardikar
Maha Polls & The Jarange Question
He’s not contesting this time because he thought his being in the electoral frame would have helped BJP. But his protest will still have a bearing on assembly elections, as it did on LS polls
Spend It Like Shinde. But…
Maharashtra CM, readying for polls, is betting big on a raft of cash payouts, some real, some promised. Against that are widely prevalent voter anger and despondency
How onions weigh on kisans & netas
Budget hasn’t provided any relief on MEP or export duty. Will distressed farmers and traders speak as angrily in Maharashtra assembly elections, as they did in LS polls?
VIB: Very ineligible bachelors
Untold poll story: young, jobless men from land-owning families who can’t get married, in Maharashtra & elsewhere. How they’re voting is interesting, what they mean for India is troubling
Maharashtra poll question no one’s asking
What will elections deliver for rural Maharashtra? What villages used to have were local leaders with vision and social capital. What they have now are water woes, farm debt, and astonishingly low incomes