Eight countries of South Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, are home to 25% of the world’s population, and 40% of the world’s democratic ...
On December 18 and 19, 141 members of the two houses of India’s Parliament were suspended, as of December 19, by the Speaker of the lower house, Om Birla. Each of these members belongs to the parties ...
Amogh Dhar Sharma’s The Backstage of Democracy is not a casual academic book. It is a serious, urgent and deeply revealing account of how Indian elections have been fundamentally transformed, not by ...
Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian’s book A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey on India’s political economy will be released on October 24. Kapur (DK) is currently the Starr ...
Though Modi’s government draws concern today, the country’s constitutional history suggests a framework for creating democracy in unlikely settings. Rather than understanding social conditions as a ...
Amartya Sen, the Indian economist, philosopher, and public intellectual, lives on a quiet street in Cambridge, just around the corner from Harvard Square. His home, which he shares with his wife, the ...
Elections in India are often hailed as a ‘festival of democracy’ given the size of the exercise, with more than one billion people casting a vote. Besides the electoral process though, the state of ...
Book ExtractExcerpted with permission from the publisher 50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy, Peter Ronald deSouza & Harsh Sethi (Eds.), published by Orient Blackswan.***** ...
The world’s fastest-growing major economy is nearing a pivot point. India’s weeks-long general election concludes on June 1. It will determine whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi secures a rare third ...
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