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Maharashtra votes 2024: In a state brimming with dynasties, who speaks for the Maharashtrian?

India, May 3 -- In Baramati, the home turf of the Pawars and the pocket borough of the Nationalist Congress Party, the contest is between sisters-in-law Supriya Sule and Sunetra Pawar. Sule is the dau... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: For a state choking on pollution, eco-governance, inclusion only way out

India, May 2 -- When environment and crime are joined in a sentence, it is never good news for the former. In 2022, Maharashtra registered the highest number of cases in the country - 198 or roughly o... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: How cooperatives, RDBs became twin lynchpins of state politics

India, May 1 -- In January 2022, with more than two years left for the next Lok Sabha election, Union Home Minister and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah spoke at a public event about the Centre's plan t... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: Why is the state losing big projects to Gujarat?

India, April 30 -- Bhiwandi, about two hours away by road from Mumbai city, has long been known as the power loom hub that came into its own after the textile mills in Mumbai began shuttering down in ... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: How unchecked urbanisation hinders the idea of a sustainable city

India, April 29 -- Thane, more than Mumbai, has been the city to watch for an urbanist in the past few decades. From being called a poor cousin of the commercial capital, Thane, across the harbour, ha... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: Why do the powerful Marathas want to be tagged backward?

India, April 27 -- With its admirable history of reform movements and education initiatives in the colonial British period and cooperatives-led socio-political development in the post-independence dec... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: Why unemployment continues to dog governments past and present

India, April 26 -- Even as the air hung heavy with the impending Lok Sabha election, Baramati saw an unusual fair in March this year - a jobs fair. Eager to display their new-found political camarader... Read More


Maharashtra votes 2024: Farmers across state plough through pain of an uncertain future

India, April 25 -- In the first flush of excitement at being in power nearly ten years ago, the then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis initiated a Vision Plan 2030 for Maharashtra. In agriculture, whic... Read More