By Arhaan Faraaz | Hyderabad
The din and dust besides the stench of the verbal diarrhea raised during the three-week long electioneering, considered as one of the most bitter and fiercest fought in a poll battle, settled down with the curtains drawn on the campaign in Telangana today.
Polling will take place for 17 Lok Sabha and 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana, the 29th state in the country to come into being officially on June 2, will take place on April 30. As many as 267 candidates are in the fray trying their luck to enter the Lok Sabha, while 1682 candidates are in the run for the Assembly seats.
By M H Ahssan | INNLIVE
INDEPTH After every US presidential election the campaign team of the losing candidate tries to identify the one moment when they believe it might have all started to unravel for their man. A tipping point of sorts that pushed the entire campaign over the cliff. Rahul Gandhi's people may well one day look back on today as one such definitive moment.
Blaring headlines on the front page of every newspaper advertising the BJP's full-frontal attack on "Damaad Shri." They would be wrong. The fatal moment -- make that, moments -- came last week: Priyanka Gandhi's embarrassingly lachrymose intervention on behalf of her husband Robert Vadra embroiled in allegations of corrupt business practices; and the party's over- the- top reaction to Narendra Modi's tub-thumping Varanasi road show.
By Kajol Singh | INNLIVE
London, Dubai and Singapore are the popular destinations for wealthy Indians when it comes to buying homes abroad. Back in the 1990s, owning a house or even an apartment in south Mumbai meant serious wealth. For the new rich, or ultra high networth individuals (HNIs) of today, to whom no place is too far to go and no price too high to pay, that address is pretty much passe.
“Some of the fanciest districts in the world, such as Kensington, Belgravia or Holland Park in London or prestigious locations such as the Burj in Dubai and Nassim Road in Singapore are among the most popular global locations for Indian ultra HNIs to own luxury residential properties,” Kotak Wealth Management and Crisil Research said in a recent report.
By Likha Veer | INNLIVE
A manifesto is generally defined as ‘a published declaration of the intentions, motives or views of an individual, group, political party or government whosoever issues it’. (Election Commission of India (ECI) 2013) Manifestos are employed by ideological movements to explain in detail ‘the rationale behind, the goals of, and the prognosticated path of, the movement.’
The Oxford dictionary defines manifesto as ‘a public declaration of the policy and aims of a group such as political party’. Election manifestos are of different genre with different set of purposes. ‘The election manifesto normally contains the declared ideology of the political party concerned in general and its policies and programmes for the Country/State and people at large.
By M H Ahssan | INNLIVE
SPECIAL REPORT The Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Pravin Togadia has said things that threw the Narendra Modi narrative off, but only for a couple of days. Togadia gave a neighbourhood gathering in Bhavnagar a few tips on how to get rid of a Dawoodi Bohra who bought a property in their area.
One way was to do what had been done in others parts of Gujarat, which is to declare the area disturbed. The other way was just to muscle in and kick the occupants out. They could be kept out, Togadia said, through fear, and this was done with the help of the Bajrang Dal, the lumpen end of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
By Mahesh Mahtolia | Delhi
In today's scenario, this question is not out place. How relevant is the Left today? Looking outside of India, The Erstwhile Communists are flourishing only in China and Cuba, to count the few last bastions of Leftism. To say it is a dying concept would not be untrue.
The Left was dealt its death blow with the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union, which led to its defeat in the Cold War. That was more than 20 years ago. Since then, Communism carries on in just a few small pockets other than China.
By Sohraab Wajid | INNLIVE
SPECIAL FEATURE Muhammad Ali. Pete Sampras. Andre Agassi. Dhanraj Pillay. Sachin Tendulkar. What is it about sport and its romance with legends? In each and every sport played around the globe, there exists this mythical subtype. A whole genre of its own. The legends of the game – whose feats are replayed endlessly, who are talked about in bated breaths, who are treated reverentially… those who have perhaps come to define the very sport they play.
By Rekha Jaiswal | INNLIVE
INSIGHT PERSPECTIVE Ever since I have come back from Mangalagiri, the temple town located 11 kilometres from the city of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh that is best known for producing wonderful handloom saris, I have a new respect for the talents of the hardworking weavers who bring to life intricate designs and rich colours of the Mangalagiri sari. It is not the prices of the saris that I remember, but the sweat and labour that goes into making them. I can clearly recall the vivid image of Sivaramakrishna sitting at his pit loom making a deep magenta-hued sari. “I have been doing this for 40 years,” he told me with a smile, “I weave one sari in two days and get paid Rs 300 per piece.”
