Proxy voting suffers from the inherent problem of ‘trust deficiency’, and violates the principles of ‘secrecy of voting’ and ‘free and fair elections’.
There was something for everyone – from mehndi to the tastefully curated artefacts from Keralite life, to Duff Muttu (a dance to a percussion instrument)
Vajpayee the poet, Alvi recalled, was not very different from Vajpayee the politician. He talked about the ordinary man and his daily struggle, but he talked about politics in his poems too