In the past few years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have had the world’s biggest democracy under their thumb. The BJP’s main opposition, the Indian National Congress (INC), has performed poorly in recent elect...
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In the past few years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have had the world’s biggest democracy under their thumb. The BJP’s main opposition, the Indian National Congress (INC), has performed poorly in recent elect...
During the Monsoon Session of Parliament in late July 2023, Member of Parliament (MP) Naresh Bansal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called for India to be renamed Bharat, which is the state’s Hindi name. He argued that the change would erase th...
During the Monsoon Session of Parliament in late July 2023, Member of Parliament (MP) Naresh Bansal of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) called for India to be renamed Bharat, which is the state’s Hindi name. He argued that the change would erase th...
At the 2021 International Summit for Democracy, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched his address by stating he was “proud to represent the world’s largest democracy.” That same year, V-Dem Institute, a Swedish political research group...
At the 2021 International Summit for Democracy, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi launched his address by stating he was “proud to represent the world’s largest democracy.” That same year, V-Dem Institute, a Swedish political research group...
Last June, a vigilante mob of thirteen men in the Indian state of Jharkhand tied 24-year-old Muslim Tabrez Ansari, whom they accused of trying to steal a motorcycle, to a pole and beat him for a brutal eighteen hours. The attackers sought out retribu...
Last June, a vigilante mob of thirteen men in the Indian state of Jharkhand tied 24-year-old Muslim Tabrez Ansari, whom they accused of trying to steal a motorcycle, to a pole and beat him for a brutal eighteen hours. The attackers sought out retribu...
Earlier this month, Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and leader of the student wing of the Communist Party of India, was arrested for allegedly holding a rally to commemorate Mohammad Afzal Guru...
Earlier this month, Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of the student union at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and leader of the student wing of the Communist Party of India, was arrested for allegedly holding a rally to commemorate Mohammad Afzal Guru...
Photo by Ramesh Lalwani. Many ideas and images appear in our collective consciousness when we consider the relics of British colonialism: partitions, cricket and general exploitation. However, there is another, lesser-known remainder of the British r...
Photo by Ramesh Lalwani. Many ideas and images appear in our collective consciousness when we consider the relics of British colonialism: partitions, cricket and general exploitation. However, there is another, lesser-known remainder of the British r...