Narendra Modi

Are rigged voter rolls robbing Indian democracy?

Rahul Gandhi’s national campaign against voter list fraud is perhaps less about making a comeback and more about saving Indian democracy

Has the Bell Begun to Toll for the BJP Government, or Has Rahul Bitten Off More Than He Can Chew?

Rahul Gandhi’s call against fake voting questions the credibility of the Election Commission as well as the BJP’s 2024 mandate

Bengali-speaking Indian migrants face hurdles to avoid deportation to Bangladesh

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

BRICS+ meets in Rio amid global shifts and internal fractures

As leaders of the group gather for a summit, the absence of China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin shifts the spotlight to India’s Modi and Brazil’s Lula

China can live with Pakistan’s slow progress on Belt and Road Initiative

China will not spurn Pakistan despite Donald Trump’s luncheon meeting with Field Marshal Asim Munir

India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias

Digitalisation of government services is creating inequalities in delivery of schemes to the marginalised

Negotiating realities in frosty India-Bangladesh relations

New Delhi must deal cautiously but firmly with the Muhammad Yunus-led regime’s creeping authoritarianism

Bihar yearning for change but the election is wide open

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

As ties with US sour, India needs to rejig foreign policy

India has to be wary of US interests drowning its own. The US has always been a predatory power which embeds itself in regional conflicts to gain from them

The Indo-Pakistani “Phone War”: The world on the brink

Indo-Pakistani tensions mirrored a chilling mix of nationalism, miscalculations, and political games that pushed both countries dangerously close to war