The harassment, detention and deportation of Bengali-speaking migrant workers is merely the first step in identifying and creating a new stateless population in South Asia
The Bharatiya Janata Party has successfully positioned itself as the chief custodian of Indian nationalism, but that is unlikely to help it electorally in Bihar
The state Congress party is bracing itself for a fight in the 2027 assembly elections by going through an exercise at organisation renewal. Will it work?
Its ability to set the terms of the national discourse and political agility prompts BJP leaders to claim that they will be in power for a few more decades