Elections Indian Elections 2019: Social media and fake news April 1, 2019 0 Written by Parama Sinha Palit. India – which with close to 900 million registered voters is the most populous democracy in the world – is…
Congress ‘Indira is back’? Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the 2019 elections March 28, 2019 0 Written by William Gould. Poster being held by a Congress supporter outside the Lucknow office. Image source: Economic Times. In Lucknow, shortly after the announcement on…
Elections Women voters and the 2019 Indian elections March 27, 2019 0 Written by Lipika Kamra. The 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be the first national elections where the overall turnout of women is expected to be…
Elections ‘IMPLOSION: India’s Tryst with Reality’ – reviewing the Modi years March 26, 2019 0 Written by John Elliott. Narendra Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has not done what was needed to fulfil his Achhe Din promise that good…
Elections The divided ambitions of India’s regional parties March 25, 2019 0 Written by Andrew Wyatt. Indian elections used to be dominated by a single national party, Congress. The first-past-the-post or simple plurality system favoured Congress, which…
Development Tensions with Pakistan: A mask to hide India’s economic woes March 22, 2019 0 Written by M. Sudhir Selvaraj and Sharik Laliwala. The latest tensions between India and Pakistan have led some to suggest that this upcoming election may emerge…
Elections Lok Sabha elections: The dangerous utopia of right-wing populism March 21, 2019 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. Since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, there has been a string of victories worldwide for right-wing populist candidates, many of whom…
Elections BJP and the politics of polarisation: Agenda for the 2019 elections March 20, 2019 0 Written by N. Sukumar and Shailaja Menon. The manufactured mandate of 2014 was based on the agenda of ‘development for all’. Narendra Modi projected himself…
Elections Kashmir: the issue that doesn’t normally feature in Indian elections March 19, 2019 0 Written by Andrew Whitehead. As campaigning gets underway in India’s general election, culminating in the counting of votes on 23 May 2019, this essay looks…
Elections No achhe din yet in Modi’s India March 18, 2019 0 Written by Diego Maiorano. In 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to bring achhe din (good days) to India. Voters, especially younger ones, trusted…
