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Looking beyond the Mandal versus Kamandal paradigm

India, Nov. 16 -- Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar were already drifting apart by the time spring arrived in 1994. The two university politics comrades were still in the same party - the famously unwieldy... Read More


Bihar elections: Looking beyond the Mandal versus Kamandal paradigm

India, Nov. 15 -- Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar were already drifting apart by the time spring arrived in 1994. The two university politics comrades were still in the same party - the famously unwieldy... Read More


What swung the votes in Bihar polls: Nitish Kumar

India, Nov. 15 -- When Nitish Kumar first took oath as the chief minister of India's second-most populous state in March 2000, there were no smartphones or Aadhaar cards, internet services were largel... Read More


What swung the vote in Bihar polls: Caste calculus

India, Nov. 15 -- Caste is one of India's original fault lines. Seven decades after independence, the accident of birth continues to be the grim reality of millions of Indian lives, determining wheth... Read More


What swung the vote in Bihar polls: Fatigue and resentment among Muslim vote base

India, Nov. 15 -- If Muslims are considered the second of the two pillars that hold up the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), a large part of the reason must be that October afternoon in 1990 when the newly ... Read More


What swung the vote in Bihar polls: Campaigning

India, Nov. 15 -- Sometime this autumn, it appeared that the Opposition's Grand Alliance was peaking at the right time. Out on a joint yatra to protest the controversial special intensive revision of ... Read More


What swung the vote in Bihar polls: Welfare outreach and cash transfers

India, Nov. 15 -- Like millions of other women in India, Rinku Devi has had little say over major chunks of her life. When she was yanked out of school after Class 6, she didn't demur. When her father... Read More


In Bihar elections, NDA scripts grand bloc buster

India, Nov. 15 -- The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) scored a chartbusting victory in Bihar on Friday as it swept India's third-most populous state and decimated the Opposition's Grand Alliance, r... Read More


Exit polls predict big NDA win in Bihar

New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is on course to return for a record fifth term and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) might be headed for a comfortable majority in the high... Read More


After 'record' turnout, polls predict big NDA win in Bihar

India, Nov. 12 -- Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar is on course to return for a record fifth term and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) might be headed for a comfortable majority in the high-sta... Read More