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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicIndian Democracy

Topic: Indian Democracy

If parties co-opt judges into political system, the last bastion of Indian democracy will fall

We live in an age when the whole country looks to the judiciary to keep the legislative and the executive branches in check. Should we allow political parties to win judges over to their side?

Parliament will tell you 3 stories at special session. All of them are false

SRK’s Jawan teaches us to read the truth of fantasies. Use that knowledge to understand why the current crisis may be described as 'democracy capture'.

ICCR festival in Nalanda to highlight India’s role as ‘mother of democracy’, its historical roots

Event to be inaugurated by ex president Ram Nath Kovind will include panel discussion headed by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma. Aim is to 'highlight aspects of India's democratic tradition'.

‘Dismantling’ democracy or ‘exaggerated’ criticism: 5 India scholars evaluate Modi govt in US journal

For its July 2023 edition, the 'Journal of Democracy' invited leading political science scholars to look at different aspects of Indian democracy under Modi govt. 

Indian democracy has always been intertwined with authoritarianism — Modi govt is the norm

Ironically, it was during the coalition era that there was a cementing and overt manifestation of authoritarianism in India’s political structure

Nehru was the patron, not architect of economic ideas. He had to take on complex negotiations

Popular discourse on Nehru’s premiership varies from hagiographic to critical, and has been reduced to slogans. India’s post-independent history is far more nuanced.

Freedom ‘losing ground’ — India ranked ‘partly free’ for 3rd year by US non-profit Freedom House

US-based non-profit’s Freedom of the World 2023 report gave India a score of 66, same as last year. Report warns that once a country becomes 'partly free', it’s difficult to recover.

There’s a Gujarat-shaped flaw in Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra

Ministries, agencies, police, governors, election commission, judiciary, media— all stand compromised. The only alternative left is to walk with the people and talk to them.

What gives Indian democracy its long life? The choices elites make

Brown University professor writes that Modi's India is still an electoral democracy. But the longer Hindu nationalists remain in power, the weaker it'll become as a liberal democracy.

Personal liberty in India is ending. If anyone in power wants to fix you, they can, they will

When politicians have no respect for personal liberty and order arrests indiscriminately, it is silly to expect policemen and bureaucrats to not follow their example.

On Camera

Why Indian and American Hindus must adapt in a proselytising world

Indian sampradayas have to institutionalise their knowledge and boil it down to essentials for transmission and proselytisation if they are to compete with the major Abrahamic sects.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.