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Woke politics, populism and India’s future
Recent debates on Indian politics are often staged through familiar contrasts: muscular nationalism versus compromised secularism, decisive leadership versus khichdi coalitions, and authentic popular sentiment versus detached liberal elite. Beneath these ...
Elections in India — home to more than 1.4 billion people — are perpetual, noisy, and fiercely contested. Every few months, in the world’s largest democracy, millions line up to vote somewhere. Increasingly, these electoral contests are no longer ...
President Trump’s repeated descriptions of U.S. mediation efforts between India and Pakistan have hit sore spots in Indian politics. By Mujib Mashal Reporting from New Delhi Russia is still waging its grinding war on Ukraine. Israel is only deepening its ...
Amogh Dhar Sharma’s The Backstage of Democracy is not a casual academic book. It is a serious, urgent and deeply revealing account of how Indian elections have been fundamentally transformed, not by voters or politicians alone, but by a new class of ...
The book that dares to say what others won’t — D.G. Comer’s Business & Politics in Indian Country – You Can’t Handle the Truth. Truth, accountability, and reform — D.G. Comer challenges the politics, fear, and complacency that define modern ...
NARENDRA MODI, India’s prime minister, is a once-in-a-generation political phenomenon. He commands support for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across class, caste and language. He is the face of his party in national elections, state elections and even ...
The revelations of a whistleblower in the Hindu temple town of Dharmasthala resemble the plot of a bone-chilling horror movie with murdered men, sexually assaulted young women, and mass burials figuring in his account. The allegations threaten to tarnish ...
It must be said clearly that South Indians are not anti-national and North Indians are not backward. These caricatures exist only in political speeches and social media echo chambers.