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Ashutosh VarshneyIndian Express |
After dominating IT, India missed the AI boom due to timid investments and zero foresight. Policy must fix it now.
Has Hindutva become moderate under Bhagwat? More specifically, does it accept Muslims as fellow Indians today, rather than seek their expulsion or...
Rahul Gandhi is trying to put the BJP as a ruling political party and Hindu nationalism as a political ideology on the defensive and hoping it would...
It is quite understandable why the BJP would go for ambivalence as a response to the CJP protests, not downright condemnation. The voting statistics...
Citizen protest can be a check on democratic backsliding. But whether democratic vigour fully returns will depend more on how the non-electoral gains...
The idea of documentary adequacy promotes exclusionary citizenship and enforces contraction of rights. It is also aimed at tilting electoral scales in...
Analysing what enables Modi is difficult. Blaming Rahul Gandhi is the easy part.
If Nehru’s politics and statecraft expressed secular nationalism, Modi’s politics and statecraft reflect Hindu nationalism.
Depending on which cut-off one picks, the overall investment rate in India since the rise of Modi has basically been quite flat or has even slightly...
If moves like SIR and gerrymandering are made all over the country, India will have elections and it will not be a full-fledged dictatorship. But it...
If elections change so many state governments – West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – it means that India’s electoral democracy remains quite...
India’s parliamentary power was never entirely numerical. By giving voice to regions, federalism turned India into a nation. Now that national...
For Hindu nationalists, the size of the Muslim electorate lends extraordinary significance to Bengal. It's one of the biggest prizes for the BJP’s...
The decapitation of leaders and heavy bombing, however widespread, may not be able to generate defeat and surrender. A long, crushing war may have to...
The US-Israel war in Iran has shown India’s real place in global politics — a middle power, not a Vishwaguru.
Even though a trade deal is supposed to be about economic benefits, it is not strictly an economic matter, especially in light of the emerging world...
India has to find a way to do business with US. It’s in New Delhi’s self-interest.
MAGA’s opposition to H1-B visas for Indians has become rather well known, but compared to Hispanic immigration, the India question pales into...
All academic institutions, it is at Harvard, the richest and perhaps the most powerful academic institution in the world, that Epstein’s ties appear...
Donald Trump’s security doctrine speaks of something that scholars used to discuss, but defence policy documents rarely did.
Macaulay’s intervention led to a colonial mentality in several sections of India. But because of English language, it also led to a lot of...
New York is America’s most cosmopolitan outpost, not its heartland. One must look at what happened elsewhere in the US on 4 November.
It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's desire to turn Bihar into...
The attempted revolution faces three structural limits, and is likely to falter.
Pakistan is likely to enjoy closeness with the US, China and Saudi Arabia. This is different from its relative isolation of recent years.
Most observers say that the degree of polarisation in the US today is much greater than in the '60s, with the political elite so deeply divided that...
Even with the option of EU markets, China will have to be a significant part of India’s economic policy. But the difficult security relationship is...
Unless dramatic reversals take place, the core of India’s foreign policy, which, at least since 2000, has focused on the US, Pakistan, China, and...
Tariffs have been used in the past by countries like Japan and South, to promote or hinder industrialisation. The surprise in Trump’s tariff...
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in...
At a deeper level, both Left and Right populism are linked to globalisation, the world’s greatest economic force between 1980-2010.
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