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That the overwhelming majority of the Indian intelligentsia, the middle class and the ‘Commentariat’, given their general political-moral make-up, should now be singing the praises of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after his demise, is not at all surprising. But the proper evaluation of (…)
That this is the case in Haryana is obvious but why this is also the case in J&K will be explained later. The Congress vote share in Haryana is almost the same as the BJP’s nearly 40%, but in a FPTP electoral system it is the concentrated character of vote distribution that is key and this (…)
Modi’s appointed experts have helped craft a narrative that combines India’s technological advancement with Hindu nationalism.
Narendra Modi was reelected as India’s prime minister in June for a historic third term. Yet his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) does not have the privilege of an (…)
There is a tremendous euphoria, a little bit of which is legitimate, after the election results. The elections of 2024 were the least democratic in Indian history. The state apparatus, including anti-corruption branch, political police, tacitly the Election Commission of India, (which refused to (…)
The political formulas that worked so well before for Narendra Modi proved less effective this year and he lost his single-party majority. Modi will remain in office, but his opponents will be more confident that they can challenge his Hindutva agenda.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, (…)
Narendra Modi boasted that his party would win a supermajority in India’s parliament, but he came up short and had to form a coalition to stay in power. Modi’s surprising setback creates an opportunity to push back against his authoritarian project.
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi speaks (…)
The ruling BJP failed to see that those who had not benefited from the country’s rapid economic growth were deeply unhappy.
Narendra Modi, India’s two-time prime minister, was elected on June 5, 2024, as the leader of the National Democratic Alliance, a coalition of political parties that won (…)
The main challenge to Narendra Modi in India’s election comes from the Indian National Congress and the alliance it leads. But the party is struggling to keep afloat as a national force as it pays the price for embracing neoliberal economic policies.
As the voting for India’s Lok Sabha (…)
The 2019 Indian general election is currently being held in seven phases from 19 April to 1 June 2024 to constitute the 18th Lok Sabha. The votes will be counted on 4 June. Radical Socialist made this statement on 26 April 2024.
The BJP is a fascist party. Or, even by any amount of minute (…)
Over the past decade, I have documented the erosion of India’s once robustly democratic legal system as part of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘authoritarian playbook’
On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a lawyer in India’s supreme court, in a local (…)
With the exception of a brief period, India has been more fortunate than many other nations in being able to maintain parliamentary rule over the last 77 years. With 900 million voters—more than the populations of Europe and Australia put together—the Indian elections are hailed as the largest (…)
Emmanuel Macron visited India on 25 and 26 January. The interview below was prepared for this occasion. However, for reasons largely beyond our control, its finalisation was postponed until now. Better late than never?
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Pierre Rousset - Can we look back at the visit (…)
Radical Socialist strongly condemns the politically appalling spectacle that is the inauguration of the Ram Temple on the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
The ceremony of pranpratishthan on 22nd January 2024 marks another great symbolic setback to efforts since independence to sustain a (…)
Despite all the talk about India being the world’s largest democracy the existing reality is very different indeed. For persistent dissidents and opponents of the current Hindu nationalist regime headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the general political environment is effectively an (…)
India hosted the G20 summit on September 9 and 10, an event that dominated international headlines. General elections are due to be held next year. This is an opportunity to take a look at the domestic situation and Narenda Modi’s policies in India, as well as the geopolitical and diplomatic (…)
Even more than in the case of his predecessors, the Modi government has sought to use foreign policy related initiatives for domestic purposes, namely to project himself as a world statesman and India under his reign as a growing and recognized world power, which it is not. Indeed, because of (…)
The move to rename India as ‘Bharat’ is part of a push by the Hindu nationalist right to create an ideologically pure state that in reality never existed.
The invitations to a state dinner to mark India’s hosting of this year’s G20 came not, as you’d expect, from the office of the president of (…)
The undoubted good about the Karnataka assembly elections is the significant blow it has dealt to the BJP.
Despite Prime Minister Modi , Home Minister Amit Shah, and several CMs of various provinces virtually camping in Karnataka, Modi holding 19 rallies (public addresses) and six road shows (…)
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation is the latest sign that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is moving toward Hindu nationalist authoritarianism.
India, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation is capturing headlines. The (…)
With quite some time having elapsed since the election results to the West Bengal Assembly were announced on 2 May, we need to start by providing a bird’s eye view of the results before probing into details. And this can be summed up by saying that this is the most right-wing Bengal Assembly (…)
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