Rocking
The Establishment
As the saboteur of the existing social order in politics, Mayawati
will play a decisive national role. The age of Maya will be
marked by dictatorial temptations of the supreme leader.
The social remix that the BSP supremo engineered pays
rich dividends as it creates a new electoral order
that brings together mutually antagonistic groups
under one political umbrella.
Widely feted for its impressive performance in the social
sector, a spate of deaths of newborns in one of the
state’s premier hospitals has raised questions
over Kerala’s overall healthcare system.
Air traffic is growing at 25 per cent, adding 22 million
flyers a year. But infrastructure creation is crawling,
rendering flying in India a nightmare.
A new crop of first-generation entrepreneurs in
Punjab has emerged as dollar-crunching global leaders
in agri-business. By combining their hands-on approach
with their expertise in technology and marketing,
they have charted phenomenal growth trajectories.
The Congress and BJP had hoped to regain lost ground,
but their failure is a lesson that regional politics
is still a reality, at least in the heartland.
The first case in two decades against
fugitive don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar
may turn out to be a damp squib as the Mumbai Police
are still clueless about her whereabouts.
The 2007 election has brought about an unusually high
number of new and young faces in the 117-member assembly,
underscoring a generational shift in the state’s
power politics.
Waking up from its slumber after a neglect of over
two decades, Faridabad has emerged as a hot new destination
for builders and industrialists alike. All it needs
is a little sprucing up of civic infrastructure to
be the ultimate winner.
Karnataka’s national parks have the highest percentage
of encroachments in south India as private industry
and official bodies have together stripped the state
of its green cover.
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STORY: U.P. POLLS 2007: ESSAY
