Priyanka Tupe is Assistant Editor at Outlook. She is based in Mumbai and covers politics, culture and human rights in western India.
Organisers of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival cancelled a panel discussion on incarceration and political prisoners late on February 3, citing police pressure after an uproar by right wing social media users. The event was to feature Anand Teltumbde, Neeta Kolhatkar, and Naresh Fernandes at Mumbai’s David Sassoon Library Garden.
Maharashtra Politics has seen a change yet another time, this time after the sudden death of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in a tragic plane crash.
Sunetra Pawar has sworn in as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister, after Ajit Pawar’s sudden demise. Merger talks of both the factions now seemed paused. Her leadership will not only decide the family and party’s future, it will change Maharashtra's politics.
The Gender Budget has ensured visibility for women in public expenditure, but economists say it has yet to meaningfully shift investment towards women’s economic empowerment.
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A Communist activist, bookseller turned successful Marathi publisher Arvind Patkar died at 73 in Pune. His Manovikas Prakashan published hundreds of Marathi books which aided the socio-political-historical-cultural documentation of Maharashtra.
Ajit Pawar’s sudden death has left a political vacuum in Maharashtra and thrown the future of the Nationalist Congress Party into uncertainty. As questions swirl over who will inherit his mass base and organisational control, the NCP stands at a crossroads between fragmentation, realignment and reconciliation.
A symbol of power, pragmatism and provocation, he played a key role across governments, navigating complex coalitions, driving infrastructure and irrigation projects, and an inside knowledge of bureaucracy.
CPI(M)-led long march began from Nashik entered Mumbai on Tuesday. The delegation has been invited for the talks with the state government. Protesters are demanding old unfulfilled demands of efficient implementation of Forest Rights Act, PESA, restoration of MNREGA, roll back of smart metres and land grab for development projects.
While Mumbai’s guardian minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha pitches renaming of the KEM hospital with ‘Indianness’, the premier public health institute lacks human resources by 45 % with 2,516 posts remaining vacant, according to Praja Foundation’s Status Report on Civic Issues 2024.
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