As in 2014 and 2017, so too in 2019, the Jats of western U.P. overwhelmingly voted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This time they voted in even larg
As India heads towards the home run of its 18th General Election-with just the last of the seven phases to be held on June 1, the slogans, posturing,
Why do parties with ideologies corrosive to basic democratic values - liberty, equality, and fraternity - enjoy democratic endorsements in India and e
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The 34th C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture was delivered by Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Senior Visiting Fellow, The Hindu Cent
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The enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) has created a sense of fear over a possible nation-wide roll-out of the National Register of Citi
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), focussed as it is on putting into practice long-held positions of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
The 2019 General Election verdict has equally stunned the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party which has returned with an even bigger mandate and the Opposit
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Tamil Nadu heads for a watershed election when it goes to the polls on April 18, 2019. For the first time since independence the State has been throug
The Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir, was recently banned by the Union Home Ministry for the third time in its chequered history. Oddly enough, mai
The Balakot bombings that followed the terror strike in Pulwama have given an edge to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)’s election plank of muscular
In December 2018, five Indian States went to the polls to elect representatives to their Legislative Assemblies. The results of these elections, some
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