Courtesy: Gateway House
Bihar’s 127 million people went to the polls over the past week. They have seen enough basic progress to decide whether they want a leader who can, over the next five critical years, take them beyond poverty, and progress in line with the rest of India. Will this seat of ancient Indian empires and two religions, advance its trajectory upward?
Courtesy: Manjeet Kripalani
The political campaigning in Karnataka’s upcoming state elections is heated and hectic, but disconnected from the economic entity that is Karnataka. Few of the issues of literacy, growth, and employment in other parts of India, apply to Karnataka. For Karnataka by itself is a middle-income country in the heart of India, a “tech-driven society” with a transformational global digital economy.
Courtesy: Manjeet Kripalani
There is much dissatisfaction with the status quo in India’s largest state, where bribery and corruption are endemic and leaders with a national identity hard to find. A six-day trip through eastern UP offered insight into the state’s changing mindset