Mr. Yadav, 39, transformed the perception of the Samajwadi Party, which his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, founded and still leads, from thuggish and backward to progressive.
The elites that had fled in the 1980s from villages, the newly prosperous members of the Other Backward Classes, several progressive outfits and different political parties came together in fighting for a separate Telangana.
Thank you for perpetuating the stereotype of the backward, tree-hugging progressive in "Self-Loathing Sneakers" (Mar. 27).
A progressive, backward elimination modelling strategy was employed until a final model was obtained containing only variables with P<0.05.
Are we progressive or backward?
Masterfully, Caro shows how Moses transformed New York in ways both progressive and backward, benign and cruel.
Simply put, Takeuchi's method of critique operates outside the framework of the East and West, progressive and backward.
To them, the — irreversible — end of over three centuries of successful cultural, political and economic integration would be a backward step, not a progressive one.
Effects of aquatic backward locomotion exercise and progressive resistance exercise on lumbar extension strength in patients who have undergone lumbar diskectomy.
While the circus that is the 24-hour news channels and the national press have been obsessed by the Con-Dem nation we now live in, the somewhat overlooked local election results of 6 May provided some cheer for the left, demonstrating that suburbs often written off by the urban intelligentsia as politically and culturally backward are in the progressive vanguard.
