Brahmin Sabhas

While Banias remain firmly with the BJP, Brahmins are divided between the two candidates from their community.

BSP leaders, in a last-ditch effort to salvage their political futures, are fleeing to safer havens, leaving the once formidable party in a state of deep limbo.

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

The Music Season or the Marghazhi music festival is one of the biggest events in Chennai's arts and music calendar. It's also the promise of scrumptious South Indian (largely Tamil Brahmin aka Tambram) cuisine.

"Tilak lagega haathi par, baaki sab baishaki par (The elephant will get the votes, the rest will be on crutches)": With months to go for assembly elections, it was this slogan that kickstarted a series of Brahmin sabhas or meetings for Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.

An outfit of Kerala's Namboothiri Brahmins has demanded minority status for them, arguing that the community, which faced a socio-economic fall out after implementation of land reforms act, is miniscule in the state.

With 22.63 lakh voters, Ghaziabad is the second largest Lok Sabha constituency after Malkajgiri in Andhra Pradesh. The constituency has a fair sprinkling of Rajputs, Brahmins, Baniyas and Jats, and, with the exception of 2004, has voted for the BJP since 1991.

While Banias remain firmly with the BJP, Brahmins are divided between the two candidates from their community.

BSP leaders, in a last-ditch effort to salvage their political futures, are fleeing to safer havens, leaving the once formidable party in a state of deep limbo.

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

The Music Season or the Marghazhi music festival is one of the biggest events in Chennai's arts and music calendar. It's also the promise of scrumptious South Indian (largely Tamil Brahmin aka Tambram) cuisine.

"Tilak lagega haathi par, baaki sab baishaki par (The elephant will get the votes, the rest will be on crutches)": With months to go for assembly elections, it was this slogan that kickstarted a series of Brahmin sabhas or meetings for Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.

An outfit of Kerala's Namboothiri Brahmins has demanded minority status for them, arguing that the community, which faced a socio-economic fall out after implementation of land reforms act, is miniscule in the state.

With 22.63 lakh voters, Ghaziabad is the second largest Lok Sabha constituency after Malkajgiri in Andhra Pradesh. The constituency has a fair sprinkling of Rajputs, Brahmins, Baniyas and Jats, and, with the exception of 2004, has voted for the BJP since 1991.