India: Democracy in name only?

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India: Democracy in name only?

The India that goes to the polls this month is a markedly less democratic one: Narendra Modi has hollowed out institutions and targeted opponents, all the while sowing inter-ethnic tensions. Christophe Jaffrelot April 16, 2024 In 2001, I walked for 7 weeks in the footsteps of Gandhi, his most important places including parts of the […]

India’s discontent with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

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India’s discontent with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)

M. K. Bhadrakumar July 6, 2023 To be out of sync with the contemporary life anywhere at anytime becomes indeed a despairing situation. That was the tragic predicament of the Austrian writer of the inter-war period, Stefan Zweig, who once wrote, “One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others” — […]