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Badri Narayan

Cadre Over Neta, Charisma Over Caste: Decoding Priyanka Gandhi’s New Style of Politics

Priyanka Gandhi and Congress are planning a category much broader that encompasses caste and echoes the meaning of class. However, categories like women, youth and marginal seem too abstract. ...
Badri Narayan-February 19, 2019,7:02 pm IST Opinion
Three Reasons Why Mayawati Did Not Want Congress in UP Alliance and How it May End up Hurting Her

Mayawati has learnt from her previous experience of alliance with Congress that the vote of the Congress is non-transferable. Either, it will go to the Congress or it will be divided between various parties....
Badri Narayan-February 11, 2019,8:55 am IST Opinion
How Handshake With Akhilesh Creates a Big Social Engineering Headache for Mayawati

The alliance has been formed between two leaders, and a major challenge for both the parties will be to take the message to the grassroots-level worker. ...
Badri Narayan-January 17, 2019,5:12 pm IST Opinion
Dining at Dalit Households Alone Will Not Help Their Cause, Dalits Want Their Share in Power

Dining at Dalit households has been tried for many decades by various social, cultural and religious groups, but never became the point of heated debate as it is these days....
Badri Narayan-May 13, 2018,1:05 pm IST India
How Yogi’s Pitch for 'Quota Within Quota' May Force SP, BSP to Revamp Their Politics

In 2001, during the regime of chief minister Rajnath Singh, a committee was formed to review the reservation processes of SC and OBC communities. However, the efforts failed after Allahabad High Court said that such type of quota is not 'legally viable'....
Badri Narayan-April 1, 2018,8:58 am IST India
How the Sangh Has Mastered the Language of Mobilisation Through Storytelling

This storytelling reminds us many times of that Indian storytelling tradition in which Bhagvat Puran, Mahabharata, Satyanarayan Vrat Katha are narrated and heard widely. ...
Badri Narayan-March 9, 2018,11:52 am IST Opinion
BJP's Victories May Push Others to Form a National-level Mahagathbandhan

With the major jolt that the CPI(M) has faced in Tripura, a close eye needs to be kept on where the Left Front will lean – a Congress-led Mahagathbandhan or exist like an alternate Third Front. For now, the NDA remains intact but no one can predict the future....
Badri Narayan-March 9, 2018,8:13 am IST Opinion
BJP's Victories May Push Others to Form a National-level Mahagathbandhan

With the major jolt that the CPI(M) has faced in Tripura, a close eye needs to be kept on where the Left Front will lean – a Congress-led Mahagathbandhan or exist like an alternate Third Front. For now, the NDA remains intact but no one can predict the future....
Badri Narayan-March 8, 2018,3:50 pm IST Politics
Padmaavat Should Be Treated as A Folk Tale Not an Identity Narrative

If you spend some time in the Avadhi speaking villages of Uttar Pradesh, you might have heard about the Hiraman sua’s tale which later became the central plot (akhyayika) for sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi for creating his famous poem ‘Padmavat’....
Badri Narayan-January 25, 2018,5:28 pm IST Opinion
OPINION | Communities in Confusion: Impact of Free Economic Liberalisation on Dalits

Here we would like to analyse the relationship of Dalit groups of India with newly emerged market in a special context....
Badri Narayan-December 24, 2017,11:02 am IST India
OPINION | For Dalits and Tribals, Respect Means Equality in Religious Space as Well

This desire of religious space is not a new phenomenon, it has been there since the realisation of untouchability by the marginal groups. ...
Badri Narayan-November 12, 2017,1:17 pm IST India
Opinion| BJP-RSS Have Compelled Mayawati To Do 'Religious-Identity' Politics

The task of consolidating Dalit vote base is very tough and she has to work very hard to achieve this. Understanding these difficulties, Mayawati has started holding rallies, followed by village-to-village movement....
Badri Narayan-January 9, 2018,5:23 pm IST Politics
Endgame Mayawati? Not Yet If She Accepts RSS's Reach

Clearly, Mayawati is in crisis. It is a crisis of language. She is talking in the old middle class NGO language, which is not going to resonate with the larger section of Dalit community....
Badri Narayan-July 23, 2017,11:45 am IST Politics

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