Politics

Low-caste woman has reshaped India's politics (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

20 Jul 2008

LUCKNOW, India — Kumari Mayawati, a daughter of so-called untouchables and India's most maverick politician, stunned the nation last year when she won majority control of India's largest state with an inventive political coalition that fused votes from up and down the ancient Hindu caste pyramid.

The Week in Politics (Time Magazine)

20 Jul 2008

A new voter registration study bodes well for Obama and the Democrats this fall, but the growing ranks of independents are still up for grabs

Keep money politics at bay (The Star)

20 Jul 2008

ALOR STAR: Stay away from money politics and other dirty tactics.