Pankaj Jaiswal is Chief of Bureau, Uttar Pradesh and covers politics. His continued interest in rural, distress, and development journalism, fetched him a handful of prestigious awards and fellowships. Pankaj is a photo-journalist too and tweets at @augustus29lotus
Articles by Pankaj Jaiswal
Non-Congress state Govts ignored youth: Rahul
Rahul, who came in a private helicopter spent 10 minutes addressing the crowd under the scorching 42 degree Celsius, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 23, 2007 04:15 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Banda
Villagers' novel way to sound poll boycott threat
As many as 21 farmers shaved their head and took out a 'funeral' procession of the candidates in the election fray in the two districts of Banda and Chitrakoot, going to polls on April 28, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 22, 2007 08:47 PM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Banda
Doctor’s gutsy probe yields life-saving collection
SGPGIMS paediatric gastroenterology head has some rare collection to show, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 14, 2007 05:49 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
SGPGI’s cut above the rest
SANJAY GANDHI Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) doctors have performed country’s first ‘partial cystectomy of urachal carcinoma’ laparoscopically.
Updated on Apr 11, 2007 03:05 PM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
SGPGIMS doctor performing yajna
A yajna was performed on the campus the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow a top-of-the-line medical institute in the country on Sunday morning.
Updated on Apr 08, 2007 08:02 PM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
PGI worker injured as weak tile falls off wall
The 'unwarranted'renovation work at the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences has started ‘claiming’ victims, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Apr 08, 2007 05:41 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
NBRI, CFTRI aim to make real vanilla more affordable
Two science institutes in India are working to put real vanilla in vanilla ice creams. They are working on projects to bring down the prices of world?s second most costly spice?vanilla. Most of the vanilla ice creams, custards, souffles or puddings, world over, are flavoured by synthetic vanilla.
Published on Dec 15, 2006 10:38 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal
Saifai vs Lucknow: A tale of two Mahotsavas
SEEING IS believing. A mahotsav like Saifai?s, as they say, can never be gauged in proxy. Apart from being one of the biggest marketing exercises rural India can flaunt, the mahotsava pips all other major UP festivals, including the Lucknow Mahotsava, by its sheer magnitude, pomp and show.
Published on Dec 14, 2006 10:54 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Saifai (etawah)
SP not afraid of poll under President rule: Mulayam
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav said his party was not afraid of facing elections under President?s rule. He pointed out that the Samajwadi Party had emerged as the single largest party in polls held under the BJP regime. Yadav said this while inaugurating the 13-day Saifai Mahotsava here on Tuesday.
Published on Dec 13, 2006 10:56 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Saifai (etawah)
Lucknow warmer than Pune!
BELIEVE IT or not, Pune is colder than Lucknow these days. In fact, several cities lying south of Lucknow like Pune, Patna, Jaipur, or Ahmedabad are experiencing lower minimum temperature than Lucknow. Nagpur, Hyderabad and Bangalore, however, have minimum temperature similar to Lucknow.
Published on Dec 09, 2006 12:11 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal
Conjugal rights of forgery victim restored
THE FAMILY Court, Lucknow and the Lucknow Bench of the High Court ?revived? the marriage of Bitto Devi with her husband who is in coma at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow.
Published on Dec 08, 2006 12:16 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal
Pages from Bundelkhand diary
STORIES ABOUT Bundelkhand farmers taking loans again and again to survive droughts are not new. What is new is that both banks and moneylenders have started avoiding lending money to farmers. The bankers know that in the present situation lending money to farmers is not good business sense. To top it all, no government aid is coming their way. How can government aid come to the region when official records rule out drought in Bundelkhand.
Published on Nov 19, 2006 12:11 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal
PGI doc moves HC against appointment process
A DOCTOR from the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS), Lucknow today filed a writ petition in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court challenging the ongoing process of appointment for the posts of professors at the institute.
Published on Nov 16, 2006 09:58 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
SGPGI is at it again
IN A major act of defiance of Raj Bhawan orders, the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) on Monday started the selection process for the posts of professors in various departments of the institute.
Published on Nov 15, 2006 01:33 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Case filed against Bukhari
A MARINER has filed a case in the court of Special CJM (customs) Lucknow, against Maulana Ahmed Bukhari, Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, New Delhi, holding him responsible for ?fractured Id in the country? this time. The case has been admitted and registered in the court on the same day.
Published on Nov 08, 2006 01:48 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow
Creating oasis in a drought-hit region
The villages are replicating innovations done during ancient Chandella dynasty, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Published on Nov 07, 2006 05:33 PM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun (up)
Creating oasis in a drought-hit region
A FEW villages in Bundelkhand are creating oasis in their semi-arid and drought-hit region. They are not inventing new concepts, just replicating the ones ?innovated? by waterman Rajender Singh and Bundelkhand?s ancient Chandella dynasty.
Published on Nov 07, 2006 01:55 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun
Bundelkhand report: Elegy on the death of a lake
Baruasagar, one of the biggest-oldest man-made water reservoir, is no more, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Published on Nov 07, 2006 01:13 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jhansi
Death of a legend
ON THE way to Khajuraho, 24 kilometres from Jhansi, is Baruasagar. Now, in a way, no more. It died this year. For outsiders, it was a tourist spot and pilgrimage, for people of the Baruasagar area, a lifeline. When this correspondent visited the lake in 2000, standing on top of its dam wall, there was only water as far as the eyes could see. So loud was the sound of gushing water from the overflow point that two people standing within an earshot would not hear each other shouting at the top of their voices.
Published on Nov 06, 2006 01:07 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jhansi
The Rs-10,000 ?typo? error
NEW DIRECTOR of the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) Dr AK Mahapatra is facing financial problem. He will get Rs 10,000 less than what he thinks he ?should get?. The accounts department of the institute has taken stand that the salary of the director should be Rs 57,620 and not what Dr Mahapatra ?now wants??Rs 67,620.
Published on Nov 05, 2006 12:05 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal
Will Bundelkhand make it?
THE CRISIS-ridden Bundelkhand region has got both a bad (as if it had any less) and a good thing going. Good thing first: One can see a growing resolve among its farmers to rise from their ashes and wage a united fight against all that is behind their ordeal. And the bad: According to observers, rising frustration and fast waning patience may force the people of the affected region to take up arms.
Published on Nov 04, 2006 11:59 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun/jhansi
At the bottom of Uttar Pradesh
Government apathy has wed nature's indifference in Bundelkhand. And together they have wreaked havoc on the land and its people, writes Pankaj Jaiswal.
Published on Nov 03, 2006 06:31 PM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Orai/jhansi
Glaring administrative failure in tapping water resources
GOVERNMENT APATHY has wed nature?s indifference in Bundelkhand. And together they have wreaked havoc on the land and its people.
Published on Nov 03, 2006 01:22 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Orai/jhansi
RTI power lifts veil off suicide ?epidemic?
Bundelkhand is UP?s Vidharba, perhaps more. Here too scores of farmers have committed suicide either due to extreme poverty or rising debts. But there is still nothing official about it as the officialdom obviously wants the reasons for the deaths to remain in the realm of darkness. So, it conveniently avoids attributing the deaths to crop failure, hunger, debt or drought.
Published on Nov 02, 2006 01:50 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jhansi/lalitpur
The death of a village
Inhabited till Feb 2006, a 150-year-old Bundelkhand village now exists only in govt records, reports Pankaj Jaiswal.
Updated on Nov 01, 2006 06:43 PM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun/hamirpur
Unchaa: A village no more
JUST AS you enter Unchaa, resembling the ruins of a died-out civilisation excavated from the womb of mother earth, a swirl of dust carried by an ominous gust of dry wind welcomes you.
Published on Nov 01, 2006 01:42 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Jalaun/hamirpur
ADIOS BUNDELKHAND
RAATH ROAD, Hamirpur, at 10 pm. A rickety bus parked on the sideway is agog with noisy, tentative people in some great hurry to leave?on a journey that they hope will turn things around for them. Some more people and the bus leaves for its destination, Ferozabad.
Published on Oct 31, 2006 01:45 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Hamirpur/jhansi
Hungry in Bundelkhand: How about a ?ghaas roti??
CIVIC ELECTION campaigning in the Bundelkhand region was belting out an irony on Diwali day. ?Mere desh ki dharti sona ugley, ugley heerey moti?, blared the loudspeakers.On the same festive night in Puraini village, falling in block-Sarila in Hamirpur district, there was, however, complete darkness. The only diya that flickered outside a thatched hut signaled no celebration; instead it announced the demise of 48-year-old Uderam, who went up in flames the other day.
Published on Oct 30, 2006 12:43 AM IST
None | Pankaj Jaiswal, Lalitpur/hamirpur,
Dalit trinity: Prajapati?s hands full
HE HAS given Hardwar?s Har-ki-Paudi its famous 108-feet Shiva statue. Now, the same hands will be busy sculpting the trinity ? Ambedkar, Kanshi Ram and Mayawati ?in the Dalit (read BSP) pantheon.
Published on Oct 19, 2006 10:38 AM IST
None | Surya Agarwal & Pankaj Jaiswal, Lucknow