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Sunday, March 15, 2026
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

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.