What Makes India an Idea?
The idea of India will always exceed all that is said about it, or against it.
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Muslims and 2024 Lok Sabha Elections – 2 Articles
‘How Did the Muslim Vote?’: Despite being the target of the Prime Minister’s public speeches and facing continuous discrimination, the Muslim voter has voted in support of saving the Constitution and India’s democracy. Also: ‘‘A Little Less Suffocating: Why Many Muslims View the Lok Sabha Verdict with Cautious Hope”.
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A Vision for India: Nehru’s Idea of Modern Nationhood
It is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood — democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.
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Fear and Hope Post the Fourth of June
In the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, given the absence of any explicit political wave, nobody can really tell which way the verdict will go. But irrespective of the outcome, there are clear signs the country is entering a new, more turbulent era and also one shifting away from the politics of the recent past.
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Bharat, India and Hindustan Don’t Cancel Each Other Out. They Reflect Continuities in Our History
Today we are facing a revivalist moment in our political history, ironically, as a free nation. It is a defeatist hangover of history to create a wedge between what we named and what named us. We adopted these names for centuries out of a spirit we call Indian, or Bharatiya.
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How the Constituent Assembly Debated (and Rejected) Citizenship by Religion
Raging arguments over who was indeed Indian were put to rest with a vote that spoke in favour of an Article 5 without religious markers.
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The Dark Clouds of 1935 Nuremberg Have Gathered Over Indian Skies
The exclusion and criminalisation of Muslim citizens through laws and state action are not as explicit as in Nazi Germany, but they violate the Constitution.
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India’s Decade of Democratic Deficit
Parliamentary procedures have been tossed aside as an increasing number of laws are passed with little or no debate.
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Modi Promised So Much But Science Has Stagnated on His Watch
There is little reason to believe that a third term for Modi will result in the revival of Indian scientific research and innovation.
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Modi’s Scheme to Double Farmers’ Income Goes on Overdrive During Elections, Stalls Otherwise
PM AASHA, a crop price support scheme, saw real spending only in the months around 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Three years in between the two general elections, the government did not spend a single rupee on the scheme.
