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Topic: Bhojpuri

Star power in Bihar politics: Ritesh Pandey leads Bhojpuri brigade, eyes on Akshara, Maithili, Khesari

Lucknow/New Delhi: Two Bhojpuri stars have made headlines this month for different reasons, but both share a common goal, making it big in Bihar...

Haryanvi IPL commentary is more crass than cricket. Don’t waste the opportunity

Haryanvi and Bhojpuri music industry have done enough damage to the culture by shaming women and propagating misogyny. IPL cricket commentary must not join that league.

What’s a full toss in Jio’s Bhojpuri IPL? Ravi Kishan makes it travel the Ara-Chhapra distance

Bhojpuri has been reduced to humour in popular culture. Part of the reason why Bhojpuri cricket commentary is going viral.

‘What’s there in UP?’: Bhojpuri singer Neha Rathore gets into song war with BJP MP Ravi Kishan

In ‘UP Mein Ka Ba’, Rathore has criticised the Yogi govt over issues like Covid deaths and Hathras ‘rape and murder case’. It came in response to Kishan’s ‘UP Mein Sab Ba’.

There is only one way to rescue Bhojpuri from vulgarity — state patronage

To rescue the language, the first step would be to honour the history of Bhojpuri literature and then to include it in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.

Bihari is an identity, not a language. And yes, you can blame British for this confusion

Biharis who have migrated to other states either find the colonial coinage insignificant or fail to muster the strength to counter the established narrative.

‘Vagina’ is top search on Bhojpuri Wikipedia, bringing vulgar songs back under scanner

ThePrint speaks to experts about a recent analysis that revealed ‘vagina’ as top search on Bhojpuri Wikipedia. The analysis comes amid worries about increasingly vulgar content in Bhojpuri songs. 

In the Bhojpuri music world, Modi has become ‘balma chowkidar’ this election season

Politics is the flavour of the season and Bhojpuri music stars and newcomers are cashing in on it.

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What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.