The Special Intensive Revision of the voters list across 12 Indian states could potentially lead to sharpening of the communal divide.

Allegations of bias and opacity raise doubts about the Election Commission’s neutrality in India’s democracy.

Elections to the Bihar Assembly saw an extraordinary 70% voter turnout, higher than previous low turnouts.

When the newly elected New York mayor Zohran Mamdani was recently mocked for eating with his hands, it exposed the enduring afterlife of colonial hierarchies.

The Assam government’s decisions on land transfers are likely to reignite tensions in a state with a history of violence against alleged outsiders

The Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar has been contentious. It will be even more so in West Bengal, given the ongoing labelling of Bengali migrant workers as Bangladeshis

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

Germany may have survived the extreme right wing political onslaught of AfD, but the world looks a dangerous place with rearmament of Europe

SP’s win in Ayodhya showed the region’s secular nature and challenged BJP’s dominance over Hindu areas