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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicDemocracy

Topic: Democracy

India is the world’s first successful poor democracy

Most poor countries that experimented with democracy failed to sustain it. While some collapsed into military rule, others slid into one-party states or ethnic autocracies.

Pakistan court hands double life terms to exiled senior journalists, commentators in May 9 riots case

The seven were tried and convicted in absentia on charges of ‘digital terrorism’ over alleged role in 9 May 2023 violence that followed former PM Imran Khan’s arrest.

Aban Raza’s painting turns Delhi art gallery into a classroom on RTI, democracy

Exhibition titled 'Nothing Human is Alien to Me' showcased Aban Raza's paintings at Delhi's Galerie Mirchandani + Steinrücke gallery. Co-founders of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan and key figures in India's RTI movement, had travelled from Rajasthan for it.

Can democracy really function if citizens cannot breathe freely?

When the environment becomes toxic, all other rights fall like dominoes.

‘Human rights & democracy inseparable’: Chile ex-president says Indira’s legacy ‘highly relevant’

Bachelet, only woman to have served as the President of Chile, is the 37th recipient Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development award, which was instituted in 1986.

Democracy, non-institutional methods of regime change lead to problems—NSA Ajit Doval

Change of regimes through non-institutional methods in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal were cases of bad governance, Doval says at 6th Sardar Patel Lecture on Governance.

Govt cannot go on bullying citizens: former IAS Kannan Gopinathan after joining Congress

Decision to join politics was after a culmination of six years of introspection and deliberation, former civil servant from Kerala's Kottayam district says.

‘Karki’s interim govt not constitutional or legal, but legitimate’—Nepal ex-law minister Govinda Bandi

Bandi speaks to ThePrint on youth protests in Nepal, Karki’s appointment as PM on basis of ‘wisdom, necessity & momentum of street’ & ‘need for accountability not revenge’.

‘Dangerous anti-democratic shift’—former diplomat Shyam Saran issues warning at book launch

At the launch of his book, Democracy’s Heartland, former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said he attempts to highlight why the Indian subcontinent matters.

Paradox of Nepal’s Election Commission—constitutional design, monarchical roots

In 'Democracy's Heartland', SY Quraishi argues that no region has embraced the democratic experiment as fully, or as fiercely, as the Indian subcontinent.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.