Kuldeep Ambekar

Maharashtra’s local elections reveal how a youthful electorate is being crowded out by money, lineage and virtual politics. After a gap of nearly eight years, the bugle has finally sounded for local self-government elections in Maharashtra. Municipal corporations, councils, nagar panchayats and panchayat raj institutions are once again arenas of competition. The return of the electoral grind has brought with it a familiar mixture of excitement and confusion. Yet amid the scramble for tickets,...

On the occasion of Marathwada Liberation Day, the region’s struggle for progress remains an unfinished chapter of India’s development...

In India’s education capital, one quickly learns that books are not enough to feed the mind. When I first arrived in Pune, often hailed...