A Forgotten Dawn While the Western world proudly wears the badge of democracy, preaching it as a modern political ideal, ...

The opposition had shaped itself into the INDIA bloc, which included almost every party not affiliated with the BJP. They responded to this action by calling it the “murder of democracy” and ...

In the run-up to hosting the G-20 summit this year, India has begun marketing itself ... at New York University characterizes early democracy in his book “The Decline and Rise of Democracy ...

Politics, or the relationship between the governing and the governed, is the central point of Indian philosophy — classical ...

“Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi later tweeted, describing the dramatic photographs that showed him and his party leaders being briefly detained by police. Gandhi’s statement was ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. The outcome of India’s elections this year represent an opportunity for the world’s largest country to regain its democracy, but ...

But what of the larger question of the state of inner-party democracy in India? Whether a party is run by a political dynasty or otherwise, crucial decisions about leadership and selecting ...

India and the Allure of Modi, a panel discussion at the Athens Democracy Forum on Oct. 3, addressed this issue, focusing on the appeal — and the shifting role — of this galvanizing figure and ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Milan Vaishnav of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the state of democracy in India. The expulsion of a key opposition leader from India's ...

“In many ways the biggest threat to democracy is not oppression by the state, but the intolerance of our fellow citizens. Conflicts of opinion and interest are natural features of any free societ ...