Elections Women and minorities in the Lok Sabha: Intersectionality in the Indian elections April 15, 2019 1 Written by Francesca R. Jensenius. It is well known that women are under-represented in India’s legislative assemblies. The historically marginalised Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled…
Elections The dynamics of social media and the Indian Elections 2019 April 12, 2019 1 Written by Amit Prakash. Everything about the Indian elections is grand: about 900 million electors cast their vote over a month-and-a-half to elect 543 members…
Elections Social media, BJP 2.0 and the 2019 general elections in India April 11, 2019 0 Written by Rashmi Singh. With the 2019 general elections hot on its heels, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has finally been forced to reckon…
Development Modi and the watchmen: India’s national security election April 10, 2019 0 Written by Ian Hall. Barely a couple of months ago, it looked as though Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies were going…
Election Commissioner The electoral politics of caste in Tamil Nadu: Why TTV Dhinakaran matters more for the BJP than the DMK April 9, 2019 0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR. With the two major Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu (TN) forming broad alliances in advance of the Indian general elections,…
Asia Carole Spary in Conversation with Sunetra Choudhury April 8, 2019 0 Sunetra Choudhury is a Delhi-based journalist who was, until recently, political editor with NDTV, a major national news channel based in Delhi. She is also…
Elections In a war of perceptions versus outcomes, Modi looms large in the Indian Elections April 5, 2019 0 Written By Rahul Tripathi. With the announcement of general elections to the 17th Lok Sabha (Parliament), India is set to embark on another fierce electoral…
Elections Beyond the BJP/Congress dichotomy: Reflecting on the possibilities of a Third Front April 4, 2019 0 Image Caption: Men, women and children at a Lalu Prasad Yadav rally, Mahtawa, Bihar, India – 1 November 2015. Written by Indrajit Roy. Electoral coalitions have…
Caste Caste and its limits in the electoral politics of Tamil Nadu April 3, 2019 0 Written by Vignesh Karthik KR and Jeyannathann Karunanithi. The general perception of caste as determining the winning ability of a candidate in Indian elections is unclear in…
Election Commissioner Institutions and elections in India April 2, 2019 0 Written by S.Y. Quraishi. Indian elections continue to set new benchmarks. The schedule for the 2019 General Elections has been announced. These will be held…
