However, Mumbai’s rush hour train crowd isn’t one of its kind. This Japanese video is comparable as it shows how even the conductors help in stuffing people into the already over-stuffed train compartments.
BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's controversial political journey and secretive personal life has provided literary fodder to many authors to write on his "charismatic" personality and "controversial" past and books on him have been hot sellers in the past year.
BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi has ruled out campaigning against his estranged cousin and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi constituency.
Be it a Metro train or a tea stall, drawing rooms to restaurants, market gossip to office banter, politics has undoubtedly become the main topic of social conversation in a politically conscious India
The Congress Thursday renominated former railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal from Chandigarh dismissing allegations of "taint" against him by the opposition as it released a second list of 71 names including actor Nagma from Meerut.
The summer of 1947 was unlike any across the sun-baked plains of northern India. Mass communal violence had engulfed cities, and villages had gone up in flames and in some places entire populations were decimated. Millions upon millions were uprooted from their ancestral homes as an unprecedented population exchange took place.
Three prominent political leaders in India's history – Rahul Gandhi: heir to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty; Narendra Modi: the controversial, yet popular Hindu nationalist; and Arvind Kejriwal: leader of an anti-graft group that claimed a surprise victory in state elections in India’s capital – will battle on the elections grounds in the upcoming 2014 national elections.
