Democratic outlier India’s ‘last best chance’
When it comes to the war in Ukraine, India is something of an outlier among the world’s democracies, notes Lisa Curtis, Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center… Read more »
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‘To Kill a Democracy’: Modi’s India
India’s democratic malaise is by now well documented, notes James Crabtree, executive director of IISS-Asia and author of ‘The Billionaire Raj’. The V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg, which… Read more »
India’s ‘toxic’ polarization shows no signs of abating
🇮🇳 | Polarization in #India is more toxic today than it has been in decades, and it shows no signs of abating.@SNiranjansahoo with Thomas Carothers and Andrew O’Donohue in… Read more »
India the awkward member of democracy’s Quad?
The Quad is acquiring strategic content: Australia and India today unveiled their Mutual Logistics Support Arrangement to strengthen cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and help build military interoperability. India has… Read more »
Can India’s ‘most surprising democracy’ stave off an authoritarian turn?
In the last two months, widespread protests over a controversial new citizenship law in India have raised the prospect of a constitutional crisis, writes Madhav Khosla, Ambedkar Visiting Associate Professor of… Read more »
Nation-State or State-Nation? India’s democratic character ‘in a precarious state’
The cumulative effect of recent moves by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party has been to throw India’s democratic character and future into a precarious state not… Read more »
With Kashmir erased, has India’s democracy ‘died in silence’?
Protests were held in several cities (Reuters) in Pakistan after India revoked the special status of the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region. Islamabad said it will “exercise all possible… Read more »
How to ensure that India’s democracy is resilient and inclusive
With the general elections in India having concluded in May, many observers are now analyzing the implications of the electoral outcomes on the world’s largest democracy. Yet such analyses of… Read more »
Modi’s ‘majoritarian state’ threatens India’s multi-party democracy
This week’s election in the world’s two most populous democratic land masses — India and Europe — confirmed the global advance of ethno-nationalism, according to FT analyst Edward Luce, author of… Read more »
India’s democracy: cause to be ‘resolutely optimistic’?
Recent events in India have provided good reasons to worry for those who admire the country’s secular political traditions and cherish its democratic freedoms, the FT’s Victor Mallet writes in… Read more »