Becoming a dependable alternative demands some complex political manoeuvring. The Bharatiya Janata Party. (BJP) may have perfected it into a fine art elsewhere, but not when it comes to challenging two-term chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and his Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana. Rather than calling the shots, the BJP finds itself caught in a three-way contest, with a resurgent Congress vying for power too in the coming assembly polls on November 30. The party, therefore, is going all-out in a vigorous poll campaign. "If the BJP is voted to power, the chief minister will not be confined to a farmhouse but will be among the people," says state BJP chief G. Kishan Reddy, promising free education and health cover for the poor.
To reap quick political dividends, the party is positioning itself as a champion of the OBCs (Other Backward Classes) and is pledging to appoint a CM from their midst. The strategy could well work as the OBCs make up 52 per cent of Telangana's population, and they have not had a CM from their cohort so far. The saffron party has nominated 37 candidates from the OBC community, pending an alliance with actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena Party (JSP), which may eventually surpass the number other political parties have fielded. In addition, out of the 37 tickets that have been allocated to forward castes, 27 have gone to candidates from the Reddy community, 16 to Scheduled Castes and 10 to Scheduled Tribes. Among the 100 candidates announced so far, there are 14 women.
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He gave the beat to the world
He would pick up the rhythms of each experience of mobility and weave them into his taals. Thus it was that he reflected joy and laughter in rhythmic cycles...such was the magic of Zakir's fingersText and photographs by Raghu Rai
KERALA TOURISM CAMPAIGN, 1989 - TICKETS TO PARADISE
All it took was a catchy tagline-'God's Own Country'-for the world to discover Kerala's wealth of natural beauty. It remains among the best tourism ad campaigns, earning the state a place among top 10 international destinations
SPIRITUALITY - THE GURUS OF COOL
Among the cult Indian gurus, no one had a bigger hold on western minds than 'Osho' Rajneesh. He's also perhaps the role model for the enterprise-building gurus of today
RETAIL SHOPPING - THE MALL MANIA
Shopping malls, a 1990s innovation in India, changed the way the Indian middle class shops. Their success now lies in being 'shoppertainment' destinations, offering something for everyone
CULINARY RENAISSANCE, 1978 - TANDOORI NIGHTS
ITC's Bukhara and Dum Pukht turned the world to tandoori cuisine and had an enormous impact on the F&B industry. Decades on, they are still a pit-stop for celebrities and heads of state visiting Delhi
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH - REVENGE OF THE NATIVE
Rushdie lit the way but Indian writing in English has taken a life of its own in the past few decades, with translated Indian fiction most recently having its moment in the sun
INDIAN ART - A BRUSH WITH GOLD DUST
The 1990s economic liberalisation came as oxygen, lighting up the Indian art scene. Today, artworks by established masters routinely go for astronomical amounts
FESTIVAL OF INDIA, 1982 - CULTURE CAPITAL
The Festival of India grew into a symbol of our 'soft power', introducing our art and aesthetics to a global audience while also helping rebrand our domestic products
THE INDIPOP TREND - DISCO GOES DESI
For ages, the film song ruled. Nothing else was audible. Then came Nazia, charioteered by Biddu, and Indian ears went into a pleasant madness. Literally, Disco Deewane. A whole genre was born
SHOLAY 1975 - THE BIRTH OF THE FANDEMIC
India had seen hits before. But Sholay seared into its collective psyche like a badland bullet. The effect was on a scale never seen before- one film creating a new mass folk culture. And a trail of monster blockbusters that still continues
