Activism Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law December 16, 2019 2 Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…
Asia The indistinct cartelisation of regional politics in India November 1, 2019 0 Image Credit: Public.Resource.Org/ Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0 Written by Chirayu Thakkar After thirty years of coalition governments in India, an unexpected landslide win by…
Asia Patronage, performance and projection in the Indian elections: The puzzle of the BJP’s rise – is it sustainable? Part II September 17, 2019 0 Image Credit: International Day of Yoga by Narendra Modi Official/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Chanchal Kumar Sharma and Wilfried Swenden. This is Part II of a…
Asia Patronage, performance and projection in the Indian elections: What accounts for the denationalisation of party competition in the 1990s? Part I September 16, 2019 0 Image Credit: Narendra Modi Official/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Chanchal Kumar Sharma and Wilfried Swenden. The magnitude of the win by the Bharatiya Janata Party…
Democracy Indian Elections 2019: Modi’s first 100 days September 10, 2019 0 Image Credit: Prime Minister of India lays a Wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery by Arlington National Cemetery/Flickr; Licence:…
Asia Will Modi 2.0 deliver on the economy? Thorny issues lie ahead, but the outlook is rosy September 3, 2019 0 Image Credit: Indian Flag, The Mall, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India: Adam Jones/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Rishi Kant and Alfred M. Wu. The…
Asia Political consultants and the changing face of India’s election campaigns August 1, 2019 1 Written By Amogh Dhar Sharma. Image Credit: Stephen Downes/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0 While there can be little doubt that the verdict from the 2019…
Asia Where are India’s regional parties heading? July 17, 2019 0 Written by Ashish Ranjan. Image Credit: Adam Jones/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. The results of the 2019 election to India’s parliament, the Lok Sabha, throw up…
Asia The making of muscular India post-elections 2019: Modi 2.0 June 20, 2019 9 Written by Brajesh Kumar. Image Credit: Al Jazeera English /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. India, the world’s largest democracy, went through a mammoth exercise to elect members of…
Asia Modi and the global rise of religious nationalism June 3, 2019 0 Written by Mark Juergensmeyer Image credit: 10th BRICS summit by GovernmentZA/ Flickr, license CC BY-ND-2.0 One strand of the success of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party…
