Former CEC SY Quraishi and Opposition MPs Jairam Ramesh, John Brittas and Javed Ali Khan took on questions of representation and state power at The Hindu Group’s launch of The Delimitation Debate.
At a talk in Delhi, political scientist Ashutosh Varshney argued that India is now on a journey from electoral vibrancy to electoral erosion, in part due to SIR.
Ex-foreign secy Vijay Gokhale's remark in conversation with Shekhar Gupta at ThePrint's OTC has sent Chinese commentators in a tizzy, reactions ranging from condescension to derision.
Voters expect political parties to rise above their differences and cooperate for national interests, with a need to better regulate the working of Parliament.
India’s democratic drift was analysed threadbare at the launch of The Dismantling of India’s Democracy: 1947-2025 by senior journalist Prem Shankar Jha.
People who say India should be a Hindu Rashtra need to take a long, hard look at Nepal. Although a secular country, Nepal's population is overwhelmingly Hindu and yet it has made no difference to its stability.
The Election Commission sees no reason to take the Opposition's 'vote chori' complaints seriously. 'How dare you?' is not how a sincere and honest guardian of the Constitution would respond.
The Election Commission's arrogant functioning and its failure to ensure the integrity and fairness of elections could well be the undoing of India’s electoral democracy.
Even after the vital shipping chokepoint at Hormuz reopens, it may take as long as two years for energy-consuming countries to replenish their stockpiles, CEO Amin Nasser said.
He belongs to a generation of fighter pilots that came of age with the induction of Mirage-2000 and evolution of modern air warfare, including beyond-visual-range combat.
Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.
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