On the surface, Periyakulam, represented by Puratchi Thalaivi J. Jayalalitha's close associate Sasikala Natarajan's nephew T.T.V. Dinakaran, appears "well-developed". If development is defined by miles and miles of well-metalled roads.
"Whenever Vinod Khanna comes to Pathankot, he's cloistered with his coterie comprising the rich of the area."
The situation is desperate and people fight over what little they have. Last year saw 102 murders, most of them over property, 30 looting incidents and 14 riots.
Only 4 per cent of the villages in Bicchua block are connected with all-weather roads. In Harrai block, it's 7 per cent; in Amarwara, 8.
Their only objective is to safeguard their ancestral assets," says 75-year-old Gajraj Singh of Negma village, 20 km from Guna. He is referring to the Scindias
High-poverty, high-unemployment, high-illiteracy, with hardly any roads worth their name, scarce drinking water, scanty irrigation, two hours a day of electricity, and people dying of kala azar and malaria in hundreds every year.
At this ancient seat of learning, the site of history's first international university, over 46 per cent of the populace today is illiterate.
"If the Gandhis haven't done anything for Amethi, what chance of any other politician doing better?"
"Decorating the city doesn't fill anyone's stomach," says rickshaw-puller Babulal of Vajpayee's Lucknow.
<i>Outlook</i> takes a look at nine 'elite' seats from where theirhighnesses have returned again and again to Parliament, and fails to see why
"Whenever Vinod Khanna comes to Pathankot, he's cloistered with his coterie comprising the rich of the area."
The situation is desperate and people fight over what little they have. Last year saw 102 murders, most of them over property, 30 looting incidents and 14 riots.
Only 4 per cent of the villages in Bicchua block are connected with all-weather roads. In Harrai block, it's 7 per cent; in Amarwara, 8.
Their only objective is to safeguard their ancestral assets," says 75-year-old Gajraj Singh of Negma village, 20 km from Guna. He is referring to the Scindias
High-poverty, high-unemployment, high-illiteracy, with hardly any roads worth their name, scarce drinking water, scanty irrigation, two hours a day of electricity, and people dying of kala azar and malaria in hundreds every year.
At this ancient seat of learning, the site of history's first international university, over 46 per cent of the populace today is illiterate.
"If the Gandhis haven't done anything for Amethi, what chance of any other politician doing better?"
"Decorating the city doesn't fill anyone's stomach," says rickshaw-puller Babulal of Vajpayee's Lucknow.
<i>Outlook</i> takes a look at nine 'elite' seats from where theirhighnesses have returned again and again to Parliament, and fails to see why
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A book about the people beyond the boundary, a picture we almost never get to see.
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