Sharat Pradhan

Offensive. Counter-offensive. Counter-counter-offensive. And a small matter of caste.

A regular column on the essential buzz

When it comes to personal favours, rival politicos have a ‘mutual understanding’

One of the youngest chief ministers, Akhilesh Yadav, on his achievements and the challenges in running the most populous state of India

A regular column on the essential buzz

Did the media and the police play into a cynically polarising game in Ayodhya?

A regular column on the essential buzz

A regular column on the essential buzz

A regular column on the essential buzz

At last UP has a Lokayukta, after three SC deadlines broken

Six ex-CMs, including Mulayam Singh Yadav, have these bungalows; Akhilesh keen to get his own as well

Akhilesh Yadav's boys seem to be taking his love for cycling far beyond proportions.

The first in a regular series of khabar from Lucknow.

'It is just a creation of the media. But the poll results will prove the media wrong as you will see the emergence of a third front'

The MP for five consecutive terms failed to give Pilibhit any prominence or a profile anywhere close to that of Rae Bareli and Amethi. Other than distribution of her MPLAD fund, she did hardly anything else to boast of

It was not just "social engineering" but her visible potential to actually be the only alternative at the hustings, combined with the enforcement of the rule of law by the election commission, that proved all media wrong and enabled Mayawati to bulld