As Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 72, he remains India’s most popular mass leader. He has continuously remained in constitutional office for 21 years, ever since…
From grassroots cadre to a digital army, from aspirations to ideology, the BJP’s party structure – much like the Congress of the past – is now…
A few months after Jawaharlal Nehru’s death in 1964, a young political scientist named Rajni Kothari published a seminal article, entitled ‘The Congress “System” in India’. In it,…
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With the Karnataka High Court allowing Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at the Idgahground in Hubli, a Hindu organisation, which has been awarded the contract by theHuballi Dharwad…
Droupadi Murmu’s rise to Raisina Hill is indeed remarkable. A symbolic yet tactical move by the BJP, it marks a strategic shift to broaden its out-reach…
BJP’s stunning victories in Lok Sabha byelections in Rampur, with over 50% Muslim population, and Azamgarh, with over 40% Muslim-Yadav population, signify deeper shifts. If pollsters…
When Manohar Joshi, Shiv Sena’s first chief minister in Maharashtra, was asked about the possibility of rebelling and leaving his party, he is said to have…
This interview of Nalin Mehta for the National University of Singapore appeared in South Asia Chat on July 26, 2022. Listen to the full podcast here…
This interview of Nalin Mehta for scroll.in on July 24, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qwcMrcZgP1A How did the saffron party become the central pole of Indian politics? Why are…
