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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicMajoritarianism

Topic: Majoritarianism

Some fashionable words make no sense. Let’s start with ‘activist’

I find so many fashionable words of today quite inexplicable.

PM Modi asked ‘what is wrong with majoritarianism’. It’s a fair question

When Yogi Adityanath talks about 80-20, he is not claiming 80% of UP’s resources for 80% of the population; he is striving to deprive the remaining 20% of anything at all.

Indian news moguls have been willing to participate in political propaganda—for a price

Politics of Hate, edited by Farahnaz Ispahani, brings together noted scholars and experts to analyse religious majoritarianism in South Asia.

New collection of essays explores rise of religious majoritarianism in South Asia

Published by HarperCollins,'Politics of Hate: Religious Majoritarianism in South Asia' has been edited by Farahnaz Ispahani and will be released on 21 February on ThePrint’s Softcover.

From Tablighi Jamaat to Bilkis Bano—Majoritarianism growing in India, leftists not all wrong

To call leftists all wrong might be simple, even an utterly lucid argument. But coming from a doyen of the Hindu right in India, it is astonishing in its lack of nuance.

Leftists in India and US are same, use words like majoritarian-minoritarian to suit their needs

If you are opposed to Leftists, be it in India or US, you are almost certainly correct.

On Camera

India’s TRP ecosystem needs a reset. Time to end BARC monopoly

A ratings monopoly in India has led to lack of technological variation, resulting in sluggish systems detached from market dynamics.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.