On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each of these members belongs to the parties ...

India is often called the world’s largest democracy. But 10 years of rule by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party have taken India’s government in an authoritarian direction, ...

Amogh Dhar Sharma’s The Backstage of Democracy is not a casual academic book. It is a serious, urgent and deeply revealing account of how Indian elections have been fundamentally transformed, not by ...

Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian’s book A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey on India’s political economy will be released on October 24. Kapur (DK) is currently the Starr ...

Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is, that Man was vile,” said B.R. Ambedkar on ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi installs the Sengol at the new parliament building in New Delhi, May 28, 2023. Credit: Prime Minister Office of India On May 28, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...