Indian democracy

The BJP-led NDA’s landslide victory in the Maharashtra assembly elections is a testament to its deft political manoeuvring and an inclusive, multi-pronged strategy. By addressing the Hindutva vote bank with Devendra Fadnavis at the helm, consolidating the Marathi vote bank through Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena faction, and even making inroads into the Muslim vote bank […]

The unsaid and unacknowledged aspect of the 2024 assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir is that, after 35 years, New Delhi has granted a general amnesty to the entire political class of Kashmir. From Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti to Jamat-e-Islami and Hurriyat, all soft-separatists and hardliners have now been pardoned […]

NEW DELHI: On Monday, a UK-based professor of Indian origin alleged that upon arriving at Bengaluru airport, she was refused entry despite being invited by the Karnataka government to attend an event. Professor Nitasha Kaul, a Kashmiri Pandit scholar living in London, stated in several posts on X that she was provided with no explanation […]

Sonia Gandhi has voiced her apprehensions regarding the diminishing importance of secularism in India's democracy.

The second phase of the Budget session began on a tumultuous note on Monday with BJP demanding Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s apology for allegedly insulting Indian Parliament and democracy on foreign soil, days after his speech in London. Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh started the Parliament proceedings by asking Rahul Gandhi to tender an apology for demonising […]

Indian foreign minister Dr S Jaishankar gave a lesson on democracy to tainted US billionaire George Soros, who has been accused of breaking the Bank of England and the Bank of Thailand. Soros recently called Prime Minister Narendra Modi an “undemocratic” leader. He said he expected that Gautam Adani’s woes will spurt a “democratic revival” […]