A lot of Indian politics is now about competitive welfarism, and it will be on full display during the Lok Sabha elections. The BJP will seek to ride its cultural nationalism push to a third straight term. It will have its eyes on several projects for the coming years One Nation, One Election, and Census and delimitation among them. In many ways, 2024 could be among India’s most consequential elections.
Unlike during the British Raj, India is no longer the regional hegemon. It cannot bully or cajole its smaller neighbours and the sooner it recognises this, the better
The casual treatment by the justice system of an incident as serious as this, where police forcibly entered the campus and assaulted students, is disheartening
September 24, 1951. It was a day of dramatic developments as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru led the charge against H G Mudgal. The day ended just as dramatically
On the 52nd anniversary of the sinking of INS Khukri during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a daughter remembers her father, a captain who chose to go down with his ship and the legacy of courage that belongs to the nation