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Jan 14, 2025 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
As I sit with Dr Karan Singh in his study at his Nyaya Marg home in Delhi, his 75 years in public life on the table, suddenly the import of his presence strikes me.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
In my four decades of covering Indian politics, I have never seen a swearing-in ceremony as grand as the one in which Devendra Fadnavis took oath as CM last Thursday along with Deputy CMs Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar. Its significance went beyond the colour, pomp, music, dancing, and the 40,000 people at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan who witnessed “Deva bhau” and the Deputy CMs get sworn in.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
A lunch thrown by NCP MP Praful Patel last week at his 26, Gurdwara Rakabgunj Road, residence in Lutyens Delhi, where he has lived for 34 years, bespoke the tectonic changes that have taken place in Maharashtra politics. It was one of those rare days when Delhi saw sunshine break through the pall of a polluting haze. This was like the countless parties Patel has hosted where mediapersons could meet the first family of Maharashtra — the Pawars. But this time the cast of Pawars was different.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
The BJP’s landslide victory in Maharashtra has illustrated its ability to course-correct quickly — coming as it does just over five months after the Lok Sabha elections in which its tally dipped — and pull out all stops to retain power, countering the dissatisfaction any government faces. The arithmetic is also what many in the party hoped for, more of a politically stable government instead of one pushed and pulled by partners.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Neerja Chowdhury
Uddhav Thackeray said that it seems like a tsunami swept aside the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), but felt that there is some ‘gadbad’ (amiss), here on …
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
Call it what you will — parivarwaad, vanshwaad, or bhai-bhateejawaad — the role of political dynasties in India is hardly new. But it is a pervasive phenomenon staring us in the face today, no longer a story of just a handful of families that have dominated politics over the decades, such as the Gandhis, the Abdullahs, and the Karunanidhi clan.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
Quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil burst on the landscape of Maharashtra just over a year ago after the police cracked down on protesters demanding reservation for the Maratha community at Antarwali-Saraati village of Jalna district in the Marathwada region of the state. Since the incident, Jarange-Patil has grown in stature and many believe the Maratha community will vote according to his wishes in the upcoming Assembly polls.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
tamil.indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Neerja Chowdhury
Every election has its dramatis personae. In Maharashtra, it is not Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi but state leaders who crowd the “Maha story” this time. Hardly anybody mentions the PM or Gandhi unless one raises it specifically. The sons of the soil are the ones who dominate the conversations. There is the CM, Eknath Shinde, of the Shiv Sena who is being hailed because of the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Neerja Chowdhury
Ahmedabad Shocker: Man Dies by Suicide After Finding Wife in Compromising Position With Her Brother at Home in Dholka, Suicide Note Reveals Reason for Ending LifeIn the suicide note, the deceased accused his wife of having a sexual relationship with her real brother. The deceased also stated that three months …
