I came from Nagpur in July to do a year-long course in Journalism at St. Pauls Institute of Communication Education (commonly referred to by us as SPICE), in Bandra West. Currently, I live in Kurla, which is convenient as a location and also for transport. As the Vidhan Sabha electionsContinue Reading
Across the city and the suburbs, of Mumbai, where counting in 36 Assembly seats will decide the fate of nearly 20 million residents, there is a sense of quiet and consolidation as people gear up for counting tomorrow. Then it will be victory processions for the winners and hopefully, retrospectionContinue Reading
This evening, between 5 and 6 PM, there was an uproar in the Chandivali Assembly constituency, in front of Durga Devi Marathi Primary school which is a polling station. The uproar was the result of people finding an unsupervised EVM lying in a car. According to sources, the police haveContinue Reading
Around 11 am at St Anthony’s School, Vakola ,where people were busy casting votes to their preferred candidates, there was an elderly man sitting on a bench quietly observing the show. Having arrived at the polling station on the Election Day, Caitano Dias doesn’t vote. In his mid-fifties, Caitano beenContinue Reading
9 am: The Chandivali constituency looked all geared up as citizens across three polling stations were seen in big numbers. A majority of them were senior citizens and looked brimming with excitement as they got to exercise their right again. Speaking to Spice Enquirer, R.K. Sen (75), a retired agriculturalContinue Reading
9 am: From the point of leaving home to reach our allotted Assembly Constituency of Vandre West, it was obvious that people were going to take it slowly, if not easy! Borivali station on the Western Railway, which is usually full of people rushing to catch their respective trains toContinue Reading
The wave of the Maharashtra state assembly elections has all 36 constituencies busy in campaigning sprees, atleast when it comes to the BJP. For the truth is, in most of them, the Opposition is not even visible. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Vile Parle Assembly constituency. OnContinue Reading
The third-largest commercial hub in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune was all cleaned up and quiet, waiting for the action to start this evening at 6 pm when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). The roads are spic and span, traffic is ultra-smoothContinue Reading