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A Self-Inflicted Blow
Ahead of the results, the Maratha quota movement, a simmering issue in the state’s politics for nearly 14 months, finds itself embroiled...

Kiran D. Tare
Nov 23, 20243 min read


Parli’s Political Powder Keg
Come November 20, Maharashtra’s Parli constituency in Beed has become a rural microcosm for the heightened caste tensions in the...

Kiran D. Tare
Nov 18, 20242 min read


Erratic Leadership and A Fractured Maratha Agitation
With days left for the big bang on November 20, Maharashtra’s political landscape has shifted dramatically as a once-unified Maratha...

Ashok Sontakke
Nov 17, 20243 min read


The Habitual Rebel
Pankaja Munde is not contesting the assembly elections this year. However, she has been campaigning for other candidates nominated by the...

Abhijit Mulye
Nov 17, 20242 min read


Plain Speak
Uddhav Thackeray said in a rally that if you don’t want to permit animal sacrifice during Bakri Eid, then don’t permit lanterns during...
Correspondent
Nov 9, 20241 min read


Jarange’s decision harmful for MVA
Mumbai: Diwali is barely over but the fireworks are still exploding in the political arena. On the last day of withdrawing nominations...

Aditi Pai
Nov 5, 20243 min read


Jarange withdraws; Mahayuti jubilant, MVA cautious
Mumbai: Living up to his reputation Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil on Monday took a U-turn that too hours after vowing to...
Correspondent
Nov 5, 20243 min read


Jarange moots ‘CMP’ among Marathas, Dalits, Muslims
Mumbai: The Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil has thrown his hat in to the ring and has swung into action for an experiment of...
Correspondent
Nov 1, 20242 min read


NCP (SP) hopes to leverage rift between Marathas, OBCs
Mumbai: In August, Sharad Pawar’s convoy was stopped in Solapur’s Barshi town by Maratha protestors demanding to know his stance on the...

Aditi Pai
Oct 31, 20242 min read


Mahayuti versus Jarange
The political terrain in Marathwada is undergoing a seismic shift ahead of the Assembly polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), once the...

Kiran D. Tare
Oct 26, 20242 min read


The Rebel In Action
Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil is currently interviewing the aspirants who want to contest the assembly elections as the...

Abhijit Mulye
Oct 26, 20242 min read


Govt has done a lot for Marathas, says Sreejaya
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Sreejaya, daughter of BJP MP Ashok Chavan and party’s nominee from Maharashtra’s Bhokar assembly seat, has...
Aditya Waghmare
Oct 25, 20242 min read


Ashok Chavan: A Rocky Road Ahead
The Congress party has been fortunate in Maharashtra, where political families like the Thorats, Shindes, and Gaikwads have remained...

Abhijit Joshi
Oct 20, 20242 min read


Puzzle of Maratha Quota
Around 40 years ago, Mathadi Kamgar Union leader Annasaheb Patil first began the Maratha reservation agitation. The demand has time and...
Suyash Padate
Oct 16, 20243 min read
Chatter Box
“We are really really concerned about urban apathy. We want to appeal to all voters in urban areas to come and vote. It is not a healthy...
Correspondent
Oct 16, 20243 min read


Under Fire from Every Sector
The 2024 Assembly election is going to be all about Devendra Fadnavis. He is the most popular target and everybody in the opposition...

Abhijit Mulye
Oct 16, 20242 min read


Hunger Games
As the Maharashtra Assembly election looms large, Manoj Jarange-Patil, the face of the Maratha quota movement, has once again thrust...
Correspondent
Sep 23, 20242 min read
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