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By Mukul Kesavan In about three months, in the middle of May, Indians will find out if Narendra Modi’s first term was a fevered interregnum or the foundation of a Second Republic.

By Jawed Naqvi I have been reading A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic by Rohit De, an assistant professor of history at Yale. It’s a fascinating

By Ruhi Tewari In an amusing twist of fate, the political Right-wing in India, and supporters of the ruling BJP, that thrived on Twitter for so long and had a symbiotic relationship

By MILAN VAISHNAV Just weeks before the start of India’s frenzied general election campaign, the country’s principal opposition party—the Indian National Congress—has unveiled its newest senior leader. In a move hailed as

By Bharat Karnad On April 17, 2015 — some 11 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made the surprise announcement in Paris when on a state visit about his government’s purchase

By Ajit Prakash Shah A little over a year ago, four judges of the Supreme Court of India called an unprecedented press conference to tell the world that everything was not right

By Nadir Naim On January 28, following six consecutive days of talks in Qatar’s capital Doha, Washington’s main negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad announced that the US and the Taliban finally have a “draft

By Pratap Bhanu Mehta The politics of “anti-corruption” in India presents a fascinating spectacle. Like the use of religion in politics, anti-corruption works more as a totem for the consolidation of political

By Dr. Tasleem Ahmad Rehmani On Jan. 23, 2019, Priyanka Gandhi, the granddaughter of the late Mrs. Indira Gandhi, has been inducted into the Congress hierarchy as its general secretary in charge

By Azaan Javaid On December 28 last year, soon after congregational Friday prayers, a group of masked men, who appeared to be teenagers from their voice and mannerism, forced their way into