India, Nov. 2 -- In a parliamentary democracy, the opposition is generally understood as the political party or coalition that challenges the government and seeks to replace it at the next election. B... Read More
India, Oct. 26 -- You may command the stones to sleep, And bid the streets forget their dead; You may your gates of silence keep, And banish all who dare to tread. But who shall chain the human soul, ... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- We live in an age when the line between what is real and what is manufactured is becoming increasingly difficult to discern. Artificial Intelligence can generate convincing images, i... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- Justice GR Swaminathan might as well put down his judge's gown and permanently take up a saffron dhoti, since his actions do not conform to the office he holds. He has definitively a... Read More
India, Oct. 5 -- There is something profoundly unsettling about how the country's constitutional institutions, which are supposed to protect the people's rights, are themselves becoming the subject of... Read More
India, Sept. 21 -- Right-leaning commentators and ideologues have chosen to lambast the LoP, Rahul Gandhi, for taking issue with the vegetarian-only meal provided at the recently concluded BRICS summi... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- The recent controversies about "men" in power making degrading comments about women make a point: patriarchy is surprisingly ecumenical. A Hindutva ideologue can reduce women to sex... Read More
India, Sept. 7 -- Mohan Bhagwat has completed what was billed as a historic three-nation international outreach of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. America, Canada, and Britain were supposed to hear t... Read More
India, Aug. 24 -- The politics of labelling is not uniquely Indian. Across time and space, governments and political movements have employed the tactic of naming their opponents that carry an immediat... Read More