India’s constitution always gave the executive a great deal of power, but the diversity of the country’s electorate has ...

It’s clear the Opposition has received a big jolt, yet they have enough room to rest and recuperate. This is the beauty of Indian democracy. There’s always space for everyone.

Decades of deregulation, political polarisation, and elite-driven capitalism have fuelled a dangerous convergence of ...

In March 2021, India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, openly dismissed global democracy rankings, arguing that they were not a neutral measure of governance but political tools ...

Thanks to Ambedkar, India adopted modernity via an extremely enlightened constitution which is a living, throbbing document, open to amendments. But constitutional morality is not in our genes. It has ...

From France’s Le Pen moment to America’s Trumpian disruption, the world is witnessing a rough patch for democracy. Not so in ...

The series ends by acknowledging the extraordinary achievements of Indian democracy over sixty years and flags India's predicted rise to be the largest country and the second largest (or even the ...

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Indian stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra faces police scrutiny for a performance seen to have criticised a key politician and ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, fanning concerns about the limits of ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said criticism is “the soul” of Indian democracy. But his allies unleashed vigilantes after a comic who called a politician a “traitor.” By Mujib Mashal ...