Sreenivasan Jain With Inputs By Niha Masih

• Truth vs Hype: The Complexities Behind the Alleged Meerut Gang-Rape

  The concept of 'love-jihad' floated by Hindutva groups - of a deep-rooted Muslim conspiracy to woo Hindu girls on false pretenses - has now been adopted by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh as one of its key agendas for the state.

• Truth vs Hype: Contenders 2014 - is Mayawati losing her core base of Dalits?

  At a Mayawati rally in Jhansi, we come across a frenzied display of loyalty by BSP workers.

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  Truth vs Hype: The Battle for Benares (Part I: Shadow of the Don)

  In the narrow bylanes of Bajardiha, one of Benares' many dense Muslim pockets, there is an intense debate brewing. In the 2009 elections, they, like most of the city's approximately three lakh Muslims, voted overwhelmingly for mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, despite the fact that Mr Ansari was in prison facing a number of serious charges including murder...

• Truth vs Hype: Nitish Kumar's last stand

  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told NDTV that he is the most qualified to be Prime Minister, but first he needs to win Bihar.

• Truth vs Hype: Amethi - bastion under threat?

  As Rahul Gandhi takes centrestage for the Congress's 2014 campaign, in Amethi, in the bastion of Nehru Gandhi family, India's premier political dynasty faces new threats - from within and outside.

• Now, threat of diarrhoea outbreak in Muzaffarnagar relief camps

  Dr Samir Zainal Abedin told us that he has seen 10-15 cases for diarrhoea. He says this figure might go up.

• Truth vs Hype: Trending #Democracy

  Did an aggressive online and ground campaign by the Aam Admi Party Party play a role in Delhi's record-breaking turnout?

• Can the Aam Aadmi Party convert popular upsurge into hard electoral gains?

  While the AAP clearly has an undercurrent of support, it appears to lacks, at least for now, the strong candidates and the grassroot network of booth-level political managers, needed to convert that groundswell into victory.

• Truth vs Hype: Sardar Patel - A contested legacy

  The legacy of Sardar Patel being contested by the BJP and the Congress is far more complex than either would like to believe.

• Muzaffarnagar: The Divided Countryside

  The village of Jhola, two hours west of Muzaffarnagar town, is now a refugee camp for Muslims. Here, we are told by those who have escaped violence that they do not want to return to the villages that have been home for years.

• The Mystery of Kawwal: Were Muzaffarnagar riots based on distortion of facts?

  The reasons ascribed to justify the killing of Shahnawaz (and by default the riots that followed) -- the supposed protection of the honour of Jat women -- are not borne out by the facts.

• Muzaffarnagar riots: in the violence, signs of careful political design

  The village of Fugana, like so many in the sugarcane belt of Western Uttar Pradesh, has been prosperous, but for the most part, it was a quiet one, with few flashpoints between the Hindu Jats who form the majority and a few hundred Muslim families, who work their fields. The white-hot signs of how that changed this weekend are everywhere today - in...

• Muzaffarnagar riots: a meeting after Friday prayers exploited by politicians

  The prelude to the riots that have ripped through Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh killing 38 people unfolded in the village of Kawal, where in the last week of August, two Jat brothers killed a Muslim boy who was stalking their sister. Less than an hour later, they were lynched to death.

• Truth vs Hype: The 'Talented' Robert Vadra

  Robert Vadra is back in the headlines after a report by Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka found multiple violations in land deals by Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law. Those in defence of Mr Vadra claim there was nothing illegal about these deals.

• Truth vs Hype: The house of Yadavs

  After playing cat and mouse with Mulayam Singh Yadav for six years, the UPA looks all set to close the CBI's investigation into whether he and his family amassed crores of assets way beyond their earnings.