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Sukhbir Singh Badal’s resignation as Shiromani Akali Dal president draws attention to a party in crisis

SAD once served as a moderating force in Punjab, bridging religious and political divides. In its absence, radical voices may be gaining ground. The...

yesterday 10

Indian Express

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Despite the toll, why is bad air not an election issue?

The Supreme Court has issued strict directions to the Centre and the Delhi government. However, the emergency mode offers, at best, a limited...

yesterday 20

Indian Express

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The Third Edit: It may be time to lose the weight loss diet

A study says weight loss comes down to fat cells and their memory. At the very least, this suggests that there is no longer any need to continue the...

yesterday 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Yogendra Yadav writes: Is India really ‘neighbourhood first’?

If we live in a neighbourhood where every single neighbour is unhappy with us, it may not be a bad idea to ask: Did we do something wrong?

previous day 20

Indian Express

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Democracy as an idea and ideal needs to be distinguished from democracy as an actually existing form of government

It is time to face a difficult question. Is democracy all that good? How do we relate to democracy when it produces evil? Can we give up on democracy?...

12.11.2024 40

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

The most instructive way of consuming the US election from distance might be the philosopher's perspective

US elections are like a wedding in the big landlord’s family in our village. It makes for a spectacle, designed to keep the entire village busy for...

05.11.2024 20

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

MCC has become a convenient alibi, a source of distraction for election monitoring and disruption of routine governmental activity

It is time to junk the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). It is time to recognise that it is not just harmless fiction; this is a weapon of distraction and...

29.10.2024 20

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

India’s largest minority deserves better politics

“Republican Party doesn’t care for the Blacks as they won’t vote for it. Democratic Party doesn’t care either, as Blacks must vote for it.”...

22.10.2024 50

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Wangchuk and his colleagues deepen our understanding of what Himalayan policy might mean in our times

The historic Leh to Delhi padyatra led by Sonam Wangchuk must serve as a reminder that India needs what Rammanohar Lohia had called a “Himalayan...

15.10.2024 30

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Haryana election result: A series of strategic moved by BJP, which neutralised the huge initial advantage enjoyed by Congress

The instant analysis of the Haryana Assembly elections illustrates the problem with our political commentary. To borrow a cricket metaphor, we seek to...

10.10.2024 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

What connected Lata Mangeshkar to the Prime Minister

01.10.2024 6

Indian Express

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A glimpse into the world of Kishen Pattanayak’s ideas can help us deal with the ideological void and political predicament that we confront today

When Kishen Pattanayak (1930-2004) passed away 20 years ago, a small circle of friends, comrades and admirers mourned him. They recalled Kishen ji’s...

01.10.2024 5

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

At the deepest level, One Nation One Election is a desire to cut down the clutter of democratic politics. It originates in the middle-class fantasy to save the republic from the public

The world is full of clever answers in search of a genuine question. When talk of One Nation One Election (ONOE) began, it looked like a grand policy...

24.09.2024 20

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

It’s time to put conspiracy theories to rest. Unequal access to money and information, not voting machines, is the biggest challenge to level playing field in elections

The debate surrounding the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) is easily among the most weird passions of our public life. Just as every Indian must...

17.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

It aims to create an ecosystem where high-risk, cutting-edge research can flourish within academic institutions

On July 23, 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s announcement of operationalising the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), a move...

10.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

It seems that the new wave of children’s books is very weak or non-existent in other languages, except for occasional pieces

Last month, I received a beautiful gift: An exquisitely designed, produced and packaged box of ‘Samay Post’, containing 14 children’s books...

10.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Progressive Indians' "ideological" opposition to the caste census takes the form of many self-serving half-truths

Karl Mannheim, the Hungarian sociologist who founded the sub-discipline of sociology of knowledge, used the word ideology in a peculiar way. For him,...

03.09.2024 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

The science of politics cannot replace the business of making sense of politics and cultivating our political sensibility

What is political theory? Who is a political thinker? How can anyone pronounce the death of political thought? These and many other interesting...

27.08.2024 10

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

It can be traced to the decline of political thought. Reviving and reinvigorating this tradition is essential to reversing this crisis of imagination

You know something is seriously amiss when the pivotal idea of the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech, his vision for India at hundred, is...

20.08.2024 20

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

We need to set aside misconceived criticisms to confront some real apprehensions raised by the apex court verdict on sub-classification of SCs/STs

10.08.2024 30

Indian Express

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It affirms the long-standing requirement of evidence-based policies of social justice

The Supreme Court has finally removed a long-standing legal obstacle to fine-tuning the existing policies of social justice. The seven-member bench of...

02.08.2024 20

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Full Text | 'Social Coalition of the Poor Can Take on the BJP': Yogendra Yadav's ACJ Speech

At a recent talk at the Asian College of Journalism, Yogendra Yadav analysed the “moral, political, and personal” defeat of Modi and the BJP,...

22.07.2024 7

The Wire

Yogendra Yadav

2024 results not a ringing endorsement of secularism, democratic India. Here’s why

Narendra Modi had asked for an unqualified public endorsement for his authoritarian rule of the last ten years and for the dismantling of the republic...

17.06.2024 40

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Modi was set to lose 2024 like Vajpayee in 2004. Here’s what changed

If just 1 out of the 66 people watching the sarkari propaganda had changed their mind, the Supreme Leader would have been the Leader of Opposition...

14.06.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

The sociology of 2024 Lok Sabha elections in 10 charts

The BJP has faced a political defeat in this election, but its social coalition is largely intact. The political task of uniting the bottom half of...

13.06.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

7 myths about Congress have been busted by the 2024 election results

There is a long way to go for the Congress in this unlimited overs Test match of politics. But 99 not out is not a bad score on a bad pitch in the...

12.06.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Two different BJPs competed in 2024. The challenger gained, the establishment lost

The anti-establishment vote for the BJP in some states has partially masked the overall mandate against the national political establishment...

11.06.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Why 2024 marks the return of state politics to the Centre


The shock of the electoral outcome appears to have obscured a deeper story of the return of state politics to the centre stage of national election....

10.06.2024 40

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

The people have denied Modi government iqbal – moral authority, prestige, legitimacy

Let us begin with an elementary distinction: The formal logic of numbers versus the political logic of the mandate. The former is a simple arithmetic...

07.06.2024 40

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Lok Sabha polls: After a long time, I heard direct references to tanashahi (dictatorship)

*Written by Yogendra Yadav This extraordinary election was an extraordinary personal journey for me. It has been a journey of loss and recovery of...

01.06.2024 40

Indian Express

Yogendra Yadav

Phase 7 was designed for Modi’s undivided attention. NDA can grow in West Bengal, Odisha

The BJP’s hopes rest on one of the two constituencies of Kolkata district in West Bengal. The PM has held many rallies to achieve a breakthrough...

31.05.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Phase 6—gains and losses for BJP in east, setback in Haryana & Delhi

The Congress appears set to snatch more than half the seats in Haryana. It could even be a reverse sweep this time.

24.05.2024 50

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Phase 5 is crunch time for BJP—UP will boost INDIA, Maharashtra will clear up real vs fake

Just like Phase 3, in this round too, the NDA stands to lose ground due to the sheer number of seats it had won the last time — 39 of the 49 seats,...

19.05.2024 40

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Fourth phase is high noon of 2024 Lok Sabha polls. It could end in a draw for INDIA & NDA

This phase belongs to the ‘non-aligned’ parties. They could play a critical role in the eventuality of a hung parliament, which looks much more...

12.05.2024 60

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Karnataka, Maharashtra—Why Phase 3 could mean BJP falling short of the magic number 272

As in the second phase, the BJP-led NDA’s problem in the third phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is that it has an awful lot of seats to defend...

06.05.2024 90

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in...

25.04.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

It’s ‘Advantage INDIA bloc’ in the first phase of Lok Sabha election

The turnout figures on the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 can be the first indication of the national mood.

18.04.2024 30

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Everyone says ‘aayega to Modi hi’—some with a drumroll, many with despair

Modi’s presence is no longer enough to brush every other issue under the carpet. His charisma is beginning to wane, making way for other...

15.04.2024 20

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

India is going to have its least free & fair election in 2024. See these 5 indicators

So far what we have seen of the 2024 elections is enough to indicate that the continuous slide of democratic standards is headed toward breaching the...

29.03.2024 20

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra quietly achieved something that the original didn’t

We don’t need a grand conspiracy theory to understand the lack of attention to BJY 2.0. But if you judge it by its impact on the Lok Sabha election,...

21.03.2024 50

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Unemployment is now election issue. Can Congress’ Pehli Naukri Pakki apprenticeship swing it?

Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge's job guarantee promise queers the pitch for the ruling BJP, which must now scramble to make a competitive offer....

08.03.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Dhruv Rathee’s question is wrong. Instead, ask what kind of democracy India is becoming

Dhruv Rathee’s viral video asks if India is becoming a dictatorship. The problem is that it is an over-stylised description that lets the present...

02.03.2024 30

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Farmers’ protest has moved MSP debate from ‘why’ to ‘how’. Now we await final stage of ‘when’

There are many who stick to textbook economics and ask why MSP should exist. But the debate has moved on to concrete discussions on how MSP can be...

23.02.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Congress finally has MSP mudda against Modi. But 2 more steps to go for it to work in 2024

Legal guarantee of MSP as per Swaminathan Commission formula tops the farmers' list of demands. The Congress has aligned itself with an ongoing and...

15.02.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

How to Cut Through the Fog in Election Surveys 

This is a translated transcript of a video by Yogendra Yadav, lightly edited for style and clarity. Election season is here which means it is...

14.02.2024 10

The Wire

Yogendra Yadav

Rahul Gandhi is conquering the margins like Shivaji did. Is this marginal politics?

The so-called ‘middle class’ is not the fat middle but a thin crust in Indian society. Politics of the margins is mainstream politics as the...

07.02.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

The Republic is dead and no point blaming BJP-RSS. We need a new political language

India has a new constitution now that institutes the will of the majority community to draw a line of fire that no organ of the government can cross.

26.01.2024 60

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

The new Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra has a dream. Coalition of the bottom of the pyramid

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra by Congress is political in a deeper sense. It’s not alliance-making or social engineering.

19.01.2024 30

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Three battlefields for INDIA to fight in 2024—and defeat BJP

The terms of conditions for my analysis assume that the next few months won’t see a big surge in BJP's vote share—of the kind seen in the run-up...

10.01.2024 30

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

EVM debate has a solution. And it’s neither the ballot paper nor INDIA’s new demand

Pure stonewalling or hiding behind claims of technical perfection won’t do. The ECI must prove that its systems are above suspicion.

22.12.2023 20

ThePrint

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